NEWTON TOWN v BUCKLAND ATHLETIC

Friendly, Coach Road, Sunday October 11

Newton Town U8...1
Buckland Athletic U8...7

Buckland came from behind to take the honours in an entertaining friendly at Coach Road.

Town took the lead with a well-worked goal that gave goalkeeper Evan no chance and had chances to increase their advantage. Buckland were being penned in their own half and only a fine stop from Evan, rushing off his line, and Harry's brave block kept the visitors in touch.

The equaliser finally came from Georgia with a long-range strike which foxed the Town keeper and went in off a post.

Once on level terms, Buckland took control of the game. Josh was desperately unlucky not to give his side the lead, being denied on three times in as many minutes.

The breakthrough came from a free-kick when Georgia was brought down on the edge of the box. Mason fired in a thunderbolt which went over the wall, past the keeper and into the roof of the net for another spectacular goal.

Beck made it 3-1 with another great finish into the top corner which gave the Town glovesman no chance.

Town were still posing a threat but Declan and Jamie were both in great form at the back, and Buckland went further in front when Georgia bagged her second of the day with a fabulous curling right-foot effort.

With Brad tackling hard in midfield and Adam looking confident between the posts after taking over goalkeeping duties, Buckland stretched their lead through Josh after a sumptious passing move.

Joey brought the ball out of defence and found Beck, who played the ball out to Mason on the right wing. Mason drove in a cross to the far post where Josh timed his run to perfection to steer the ball home.

Captain for the day Harry made it 6-1 with a fine solo effort, drifting infield from the right before drilling a low, hard left-foot effort past the Town keeper, and Beck completed the scoring when he seized on a rebound from Harry's shot and rifled the ball into the roof of the net to make the final score 7-1.