A POINT AT THE TOON
NEWCASTLE UNITED 2 COUNTY 2
StockportCounty Ladies first team drew 2 - 2 away to Newcastle United on Sunday.
Caroline Price scored both the goals.
COUNTY RESERVES 4 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY RESERVES 2
County were on the attack straight from the kick off, with Claire Tenzer's deep cross inches too high for Katie Sweeney to connect.
With the Sheffield team weaker on the left hand side, the Hatters put a lot of their play through Claire Tenzer, who made several good passes into Sally Wood and Katie Sweeney, and the strikers' movement off the ball caused Wednesday real problems.
Georgina Watton also joined in many attacks and, in the 25th minute, her cross was just cleared by a defender. Ten minutes later Claire Tenzer was clean through on the right, but elected to pass when a better option was to shoot, and the ball was cleared.
All the lethargy of the previous week's performance was well behind the team, and the whole of the first half was one-way traffic, but it remained 0-0 at the break.
Two minutes into the second half, Laura Bowater made her third save of the match, but County went straight to the other end and gratefully accepted a penalty for handball, which Nikki Connor finished on the second attempt,.
The second followed five minutes later with Sally Wood finishing off at the far post with a low angled side foot as the keeper was stranded in the middle of the goal by Katie Sweeney's deceptive cross.
County were dominating now and turning pressure into goals, but Sheffield quickly pulled one back with a free kick into the roof of the net from 25 yards on 56 minutes.
The Hatters re-established their two-goal cushion within two minutes, though, Katie Sweeney turned just inside the box, and shot over the keeper into the far left corner of the goal.
Hayley Marshall, who had a fine match in centre midfield, had to come off after a clash of heads in the 65th minute.
Wednesday were out to make a game of it, and Laura Bowater was in more frequent action to cut out crosses and save more shots.
Again Wednesday got a goal back when awarded a penalty in the 69th minute.
Now County looked a bit vulnerable, but regained composure towards the final five minutes, and Kath Jones finished off a good passing move in the 88th minute with a low drive the keeper failed to hold.
Player of the match: Hayley Marshall
Team : Laura Bowater, Georgina Watton, Nikki Connor, Jane Webb, Helen Pagan (Nat Palmer 45), Claire Tenzer, Carley Davies, Hayley Marshall (Kath Jones 65), Katie Sweeney, Sally Wood (Sarah Stones 58), Vicky McConnell.
COUNTY HNR 6 WARRINGTON TOWN 1
A full-strength HNR side played some excellent football on Sunday against a side who was a place above them in the table.
HNR opened the scoring in the first 15 minutes through Louise Allwood who fired a shot passed the keeper, she added to this a few minutes later with an accurate lob over the keepers head.
However, Warrington got back into the game a few minutes later with a scrambled goal that just managed to squeeze past Sue Walsh.
HNR regained composure and Sammy Toner made it 3 - 1 with a tap in after the keeper made a great save from a Tamzin Morris shot.
After the break more HNR pressure caused Warrington all sorts of problems defensively and Louise Allwood scored another two.
Towards the end of the game HNR got a free kick on the edge of the box and Karen Weeden curled a beauty into the top right hand corner.
Overall another excellent performance from an ever improving HNR side. Also two great debuts in Carol Plant and Dani Moran meant the HNR squad is going in the right direction.
Player of the Match: Donna Haynes
Squad: Sue Walsh, Kelly Wilson, Tamzin Morris, Karen Weeden, Donna Haynes, Becky Evans, Adele Hollingsworth, Sammy Toner, Claire Richardson, Louise Allwood, Jo Bashir, Rachel Brindley, Carol Plant, Dani Moran.
COUNTY BLUES 4 OLDHAM 3
Player of the Match Tuesday Porrit scored all four goalsin the Blues 4 - 3 victory over Oldham.
JUNIORS
In the South Manchester League the Under-16s beat West Haughton 4 - 2 with goals from Amy Baines, Cheryl Burns and Chantelle Kelly (2).
Player of the Match was Carla Yates.
The Under-14s played Wythenshawe Amateurs away and won 7 - 3.
Player of the Match wasAbbie Cooke
Alex Mills, who scored 2 goals (both with her left foot - not bad for a right winger!),was Player of the Match in the Under-13s7 - 4 win over Deans Sports.
Kirsty Ward also scored two andthe scoring was completed by Laura Dunn, Millie Turner and Amy Dempsey with a fine individual goal which saw her win possession on the half-way line, beat three opponents and finished off inside the 6 yard box!
This was a very even contest between two teams whose policy was to attack at
every opportunity. This win makes it 6 out of 6 for the girls who stay top of the table.
The Under-11s lost 8-4 to Sale.
Scorers were Bethany Clark (2) Katie Ward and Emily Broadbent.
Player of the match was Lucy Kilheeney.
