Pewsey Vale 0 Trowbridge Town 2
Although present at the match, I did not have time to write notes for this one, here's the view from Pewsey..
A win for Trowbridge Town, on their first visit to local rivals Pewsey Vale, in the Hellenic League.
Trowbridge took an early lead in the 2nd minute when Dean Barker received a long ball from the half way line to beat the advancing Vale keeper Stuart Thompson. Pewsey fought back and in the 5th minute a great run by run Craig Wall saw his shot going across the goal mouth. This was followed by two more good runs but he failed to get that clinical finish to his final shot. The game was going from end to end with both sides having their chances Dave Percival tried to lob the Pewsey keeper in the 19th minute but his effort went over the bar. A perfect tackle by defender Brian Blake denied Percival another scoring chance. Great play by the Pewsey duo of Mark Bennett and Tom Ritchie again set up Wall but his powerful shot was to go just wide on the 25 minutes. The first half was full of chances for both sides but poor finishing and saves by the keepers denied the game having more goals.
Half Time: 0 - 1
The second half continued as in the first with Pewsey fighting hard to get back in the match. Wall was full of running but not just able to capitalize on his many chances.
Pewsey manager Dave Turner brought off the bench, the fresh legs of Kevin Montague on the 58 minutes for Danny Killderry and then Trowbridge made a change Booker Woodford replacing Chris Tricker minutes later. As Pewsey continued to press for that elusive goal Wall sent Harry Hambridge on a good run down the left side his perfect cross searched out the head of Montague at the far post but his powerful header went just wide. The game was put beyond the Vale when Thompson was committed to leave his goal line and was left stranded leaving Percival to slot home. The Pewsey side do not know the words, to give up and they continued to look to get a point from the game and fully deserved to get more from this match but it was not to be!
Report by Pewsey Vale
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