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when good work on the Service right resulted in a cross into the Henbury box and
Brett Blake was on hand from six yards for 1-0. Henbury started the second half
brightly going close with efforts from Fabian Pereira and Chigo Ude and on 55
minutes a goal bound shot was thought to have struck the arm of a Cheltenham
player …… but play on. On 70 minutes the visitors came close to doubling the lead,
but the shot whistled past the goal. Cheltenham’s second goal came from Mike
Oliver and completed a 2-0 victory.
The struggle continues for Quedgeley Wanderers who hosted Rockleaze
Rangers at Waterwells. The games first chance fell to the hosts with Ellis
Woodland just over from 20 yards. Rockleaze opened the scoring on five minutes
following an error by keeper Evan Coombs who gifted George James a goal from
twenty yards. Rory Hunt had a chance for the hosts but was blocked. Quedgeley’s
Jack Bright showed good defending skills to prevent a chance for the visitors and
on 33 minutes Quedgeley equalised after Connor Webb’s free kick bounced off a
defender and landed for Dorian Colling to slot home, and he almost scored again
but keeper Jordan Dunning was on hand. Rockleaze’s Marcus Williams slotted his
team into the lead despite the efforts of Kory Taylor in the hosts’ defence. The first
chance of the second half fell to the hosts Connor Webb whose cross drifted over,
and Rory Hunt had another go, but the ball was well gathered by Dunning. Rangers
Marcus Williams was denied by Coombs with an excellent double save. In an end-
to-end affair it was the turn of the host’s Ollie Curtis to shoot over. In the
74 minute Rockleaze’s Tate Shaw had a shot saved by Coombs. With quarter of
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an hour to go a penalty was given in Rockleaze’s favour and Zaki Elgami slotted
home. Quedgeley kept going with a Connor Webb effort and with five minutes left
Coombs was on hand to stop Elgami. Rangers got their fourth with two minutes left
Sam Bailey obliging. A 4-1 scoreline in favour of the visitors but Quedgeley never
gave up.
Still at the bottom and Hardwicke’s visit to Broadwell Amateurs ended in a 1-0
defeat despite playing 50 minutes against ten men. A scrappy north of the border
game saw Hardwicke the livelier for the first ten minutes but Broadwell had the first
chance with Kristian Burnard through on goal blasted straight at keeper Hall. Both
sides were guilty of giving the ball away and the game lacked any fluency. On 40
minutes Dan Hudson made a thirty-yard run and lost the ball and his outstretched
tackle to retrieve the ball was deemed a red card. Broadwell worked hard down the
flanks in the second period ,but the final pass was always lacking, Hardwicke’s
defence held firm. The visitors should have had the lead on 68 Jack Twyman
unmarked in the box scooped over with the goal at his mercy. Unfortunate injuries
including Burnard who was later found to have broken his ankle led to Broadwell
making changes and the crowd sought of woke up for the final ten and home
keeper Jack Watkins pulled off a great save from Twyman on 82. A minute later
Liam Thomas saw his miskick at goal deceive Hall and deflect over his head and in
for 1-0 to Broadwell. Hardwicke were the reduced to ten following confrontation
near the home supporters shed and with the final whistle due to be blown Thomas
fired over from six yards for Broadwell.
Back to the top and to Fairmile Gardens where Gala Wilton kept up their title
challenge against fellow challengers Bromley Heath United with a deserved 1-0
win. Gala started brightly and scored what was to be the games’ only goal on 7