There were just four of the five scheduled games played in the U18 Floodlight Division of the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League last week as the rain during the week put paid to Westbury United’s game against Wims 11 with the Westbury ground set to host Devizes Town FA Vase fixture two days later.

The early leaders of the division are Swindon Supermarine who are unbeaten after their opening three games, their second victory of the season being a 2-0 home win over last season’s champions Radstock Town who have now lost both of their opening two fixtures, Louis Croston with both of the Swindon Supermarine goals.

Bishops Cannings and Calne Town sit a point behind Swindon Supermarine in the table. Bishops Cannings made it back-to-back wins to open their season, defeating near neighbours Devizes Town 3-1 at Green Lane in front of three figure crowd, an impressive crowd for an U18 Floodlight Division fixture.  On target for Bishops Cannings were Selby Wright, Thomas Thomas and Jack Spanswick, Oscar Wall with the reply for Devizes Town.

After an opening game defeat against Kintbury Rangers, Calne Town have bounced back with two consecutive wins, their latest triumph a 3-1 away win at Amesbury Town, Alfie Pawlak-Walsh with the Amesbury goal.

Gillingham Town picked up their first points of the season with an impressive 3-0 win over a Kintbury Rangers side who had opened their season with that win over Calne Town in the first week of the season. Daniel Dacombe bagged a brace with the other Gillingham goal being scored by Thomas Gaylard.

In the FA Youth Cup First Qualifying Round Melksham Town pushed Chippenham Town all the way taking the tie to penalties. Melksham led 2-1 at half-time and then led 3-2 going into the closing stages of the game, this after their keeper had also saved a penalty on the hour mark to keep the score at 2-2. However, an equaliser for Chippenham six minutes from time meant that penalties were needed to settle matters. Melksham scored all four of their opening penalties but missed their final two to lose 6-5 on penalties, a gallant effort against the higher-level club. If the crowd for the Devizes U18 derby was large, the crowd at Melksham on Thursday night was even more impressive with the reported attendance being 236.