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League Review
At Fairmile Gardens Gala Wilton took on Bromley Heath United desperate for
three points in their attempt to stay up. Bromley Heath had the first chance but
Oscar Bignell made a good save. Gala looked to have taken a tenth minute lead
following a goalmouth scramble but somehow a defender headed off the line. The
rest of the first half saw good play from both sides and the nearest to a goal was
Gala’s Jordan Molyneux whose shot was deflected narrowly wide. Gala came out
strongly for the second half and nearly took a 51st minute lead but Will Ferguson
denied Connor Walters and Keiron Mace’s header hit the bar from the resulting
corner. Gala huffed and puffed searching for the win they needed but Bromley’s
defence held firm and it started to look like Bromley might win it in the final ten
minutes but two good saves by Bignell and the outside of the post saved Gala and
0-0 was probably the right result.
To the Bell Field, where Frampton United took on an Almondsbury side,
themselves rather desperate for points, and they were unlucky not to take a second
minute lead when a long range shot from Loui Ward struck the bar. Five minutes
later they did take the lead when Ward headed in Oakley Dawes cross. Frampton
slowly got into the game and a Mark Harper-Emerson shot was well saved by
Burgess. Manolo Espada had a good chance in the 70 minute but dragged his shot
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wide. Frampton finally got on the scoresheet in the 79 minute when Myron Turner
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drilled in to the bottom corner. Almonds retook the lead on 83 when a deflected
shot looped up and Tom Kaye tipped the ball onto the bar, from the rebound the
ball was headed back and Kaye clawed it out but Dawes finally headed home. The
final goal of the game came in the 86 minute when a George Driver-Dickerson
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cross found brother Henry at the back post for a 2-2 header.
A wonderful Spring afternoon at Hillside for Rockleaze Rangers last home match
of the season against Little Stoke and the last ever match at Hillside Gardens
before their merger with Henbury. As is their way on the 3G Rockleaze started well
and took the lead three minutes in when Jordan Dent who has been plagued by
injuries for two seasons stooped to divert a header past Goradz Gigov from Kacper
Kalkowski’s cross. It was Dent again on 14 minutes tapping in from 2 yards after
Gigov spilled George James goal bound effort. But on twenty Little Stoke were back
in it when Jordan Buckett gave the ball away trying to pass into midfield but it
found its way to Alex Hill who fired past debutant keeper Alex Durrani. On 27
minutes Dent came close to his hat-trick when he narrowly shot over after good
work by Marcus Williams. Little Stoke nearly equalised two minutes from the break
but a superb Duranni save prevented Danny Lane from finding the net. The last
action of the half saw Nick Jones hit the inside of the post and the ball was hacked