Match report: Cowes Sports 2 v Laverstock & Ford 3, 12/09/2009

Cowes slumped to another home defeat on Saturday after the visitors came

back with a second half recovery.

Cowes had the ball in the net early on, but Max Draper had strayed

off-side, then, when put through by Craig Thomas he was unable to control

the ball in a decent position.

On seventeen minutes, the Yachtsmen took a deserved lead. A defender was

booked for a crude foul on Mark Augustus and when Joe Collins’ free-kick

came back off of the crossbar, he was first to react and headed home.

In first half injury time the referee, Mr. Senavirathna, handed Laverstock

the equaliser, harshly penalising Joe Collins for handball. Elliott Wykes

stepped up to convert the penalty.

The opening exchanges after the break were fairly even, but twice the

referee denied Cowes’ penalty claims for handballs that looked far more

obvious than the one in the first half.

Mr. Senavirathna kept the crowd and both sets of players amused with some

eccentric decisions, but it was the visitors who were laughing on seventy

minutes, when from a corner, Kyle Tryhorn rose at the far post to head his

side in front, then almost immediately, Adam Heath cut in from the right

and fired a third goal past Chris Norris’s despairing dive.

Virtually from the kick-off, Craig Thomas had a great chance, one-on-one

with the keeper, who tipped tipped his effort round the post, but from the

corner, Cowes cut the deficit again, substitute Paul Kemp marking his debut

by bundling the ball home.

With time running out, Cowes searched frantically for an equaliser, but

Kemp again and Joe Butcher, both shot agonisingly wide.

Cowes Sports: C. Norris, S. Yelland, A. Watson, L. Davies, M. McDonough, M.

Augustus, M. Draper, H. Dye, J. Collins, C. Thomas, J. Butcher.

Substitues: C. Allen, P. Kemp, T. Dye, M. Young.

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