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Wiltshire Senior League
Pewsey Go Top with win at Shrewton

The story of Tuesday night’s action in the Premier Division was one of comebacks. Three of the sides involved in the night’s action started the night unbeaten and after the dust had settled two maintained that unbeaten tag.

The top game of the night was at Shrewton Recreation Ground where Pewsey Vale, who had won their first two games, were the visitors to a Shrewton United side that had won and drawn their opening two fixtures. Pewsey started the brighter and continued to be on top in the first half but were wasteful in front of goal. Despite their first half domination Pewsey themselves behind against the run of play when Jake Watson put Shrewton in front to make it 1-0 at half time. Within a minute of the start of  the second half Jake Watson fired a shot from distance into the bottom corner of the net for his second of the game to make it 2-0 to Shrewton. Pewsey started their comeback on 52 minutes when Harry Hoareau finished off a well worked team goal. The Pewsey equaliser came following an error from the Shrewton keeper after he started to dribble the ball and then picked it up again resulting in an indirect free kick. From the resulting free kick, with the whole of the Shrewton team on the goal line, Ryan Thomas fired into level matters at 2-2. With just three minutes to go Pewsey completed their comeback when Liam Edmondson scrambled in what proved to be the winner for Pewsey in an entertaining game involving two of the top sides in the league. The comeback win made it three from three for Pewsey Vale and their first win over Shrewton for over 10 years. Pewsey are now the early leaders in the table ahead of this Saturday’s visit to Frome Collegians. Shrewton will look to bounce back when they travel to Melksham Town Reserves on Saturday.

Liam Edmondson and Ryan Thomas who both scored in Pewsey's comeback win at Shrewton

The other game on Tuesday night was at the Gerard Buxton Ground where Malmesbury Victoria Development were Royal Wootton Bassett Town Development’s visitors. Royal Wootton Bassett had won their opening two fixtures whilst Malmesbury had beaten Melksham Town Reserves but had lost narrowly at Frome on Saturday. Bailey Gallagher opened the scoring with his second of the season for the home side and veteran Jonathan Davis then extended the lead from the penalty spot to make it 2-0. With less than five minutes remaining it looked like it would be three from three for the home side, but Malmesbury Vics Development staged a comeback with two goals in those final minutes. Firstly, Connor Laidlaw notched his second of the season to give Malmesbury hope of salvaging something from the game and then Jake Fortune headed in an equaliser in the final minute of normal time to make it 2-2 and the points were shared. For Royal Wootton Bassett Town Development their unbeaten start to the season now stands at three games and they are second in the early league table ahead of Saturday’s trip to Devizes Town Reserves. The point for Malmesbury lifted them into fifth spot in the table ahead of Saturday’s home game with Corsham Town Reserves.

Bailey Gallagher (picture courtesy of Steve Green) and Jonathan Davis who scored for RWBT Development in their 2-2 draw with Malmesbury

Wednesday night saw Corsham Town Reserves travel to the Lew Hill Memorial Ground for their first ever league encounter with Odd Down Reserves. It was an entertaining game with the young Odd Down side and the experienced Corsham Town Reserves side serving up six goals between them. James Noad, who had got off the mark in Saturday’s defeat to Pewsey, scored two more for Odd Down with Conor Westerside adding a third. For Corsham Town Reserves there was also two goals for Jamal Chevelleau, Jack Brain with the other Corsham goal as it finished 3-3 and the points were shared. The point lifted Odd Down into sixth place in the table whilst Corsham moved up to 12th place. Next up for Odd Down is a tough looking trip to Wroughton whilst Corsham, as noted above, will visit Malmesbury Victoria Development.

Premier Division Results


Tuesday 15 September

Royal W. B.T Dev 2 Malmesbury V Dev 2

Shrewton Utd 2 Pewsey Vale 3


Wednesday 16 September

 Odd Down Res 3 Corsham Town Res 3

16 September 2020