Saturday 5th October

 

FIRST DIVISION

Meridian VP 1-2 Tooting Bec

Canterbury City 1-1 Bridon Ropes

Croydon 4-1 Sheppey Sports

Faversham Strike Force 1-2 Rochester United

Greenways 1-3 Staplehurst Monarchs

Halls AFC 1-2 Welling Town

 

Tooting Bec were the winners in the morning Groundhop kick-off in Charlton with Bailey McCarthy scoring an injury time winner at Meridian VP.

Kleon James had given the visitors an early lead but it was quickly cancelled out by Robinhood Mensah Sowah in front of a record crowd at Meridian. With the game heading for a draw McCarthy popped up with the decider which extends Meridian’s losing league run to 8 games.

At the standard kick-off time we had 5 further games, 3 of which went to the away sides.

Croydon were the only home side to pick up 3 points and as a result they return to the top of the table.

Rochester United won the big game of the day, coming away from Faversham Strike Force as 2-1 victors.

All 3 goals came in an exciting first half with Mack Reilly and Tom Loynes scoring for 4th placed Rochester and Alex Willis on target for Strike Force.

All 4 goals at Cobdown came in a hectic first 20 minutes and with Staplehurst Monarchs scoring 3 of them, they ran out as winners over Greenways.

Thanks to an Own Goal plus Luke Adams and Ted Rosetti strikes, Staplehurst raced into the lead. The hosts pulled one back through Logan Thomson and surprisingly that was the end of the scoring with the game finishing 3-1.

It was win number one of the season for Welling Town as they edged out groundsharers Halls AFC 2-1.

Ayodeji Owoeye scored in each half for the Boots before Zack Manning narrowed the deficit. Welling held on and move up a place to 16th as a result.

The only draw of the day was between Canterbury City and Bridon Ropes with Rob Lawrence cancelling out Emmanuel Bestman’s opener for the visitors.

 

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