March Town are ‘gr-eight’ in League Cup but ten-man Wisbech Town are out
March made mincemeat of the league’s worst team in the Knockout Cup this afternoon, but ten-man Wisbech suffered a comprehensive home defeat.
Meanwhile, Parson Drove won at home in the league, while Whittlesey lost in their own backyard.
At the GER, March Town were hosting Rainworth Miners Welfare in the United Counties League Cup. The newly-promoted Wrens are bottom of UCL Division One and have lost every game this season, but the 8-0 defeat at the GER was the worst loss so far for the Nottinghamshire village side.
Flo Tsaguim opened the scoring for UCL Premier South Hares in the second minute and made it 2-0 with his second after 11 minutes. James Hill-Seekings made it 3-0 four minutes later, and Tsaguim completed his hat-trick with his fifth goal in six games this season just before the half-hour. Hill-Seekings’ second goal and third of the campaign made it 5-0 at the break.
Ash Taylor’s men did not let off in the second half, man-of-the-match Toby Allen netting the sixth eight minutes in and sub Denny Escorcio making it 7-0 on the hour. Allen rounded off the scoring in the 76th minute with his seventh of the season.
Over at Fountain Fresh Park, a match-up between a Wisbech Town side sixth in the United Counties Premier North and a visiting Newark Town outfit one point ahead of them in third looked like it should be a close affair.
But when The Fenmen, already playing with walking wounded and short on the bench, lost Sam Harris to a last-man red card after 41 minutes with the score at 0-0, everything changed. The Notts side scored in first-half stoppage time, netted a second on the hour and then wrapped up the win in the final minute.
In the Thurlow Nunn First Division North, Parson Drove sit in a healthy seventh place after eight games, following a 2-1 home win over lowly Leiston U23s, who had won two of their last three games. Drove missed a first-half penalty but took the lead seconds later through Jack Kent’s third of the season. The East Suffolk side quickly equalised, and that’s the way it stayed up to the break. Striker Corey Kingston scored the winner late in the second half, his first of the campaign.
Whittlesey Athletic drop to 13th after a 2-0 home defeat to Halesworth Town, who rise to ninth.
Next Saturday, Wisbech will be hoping to continue their good league form at home to struggling Melton Town in the UCL Premier North. March, who sit eighth in UCL Premier South, travel to seventh-place Atherstone United.
Parson Drove travel to play 11th-place Long Melford, and Whittlesey travel to play 14th-place Gorleston Reserves.
March Town: Gill, Green, Brumby, Saunders, Emmington, King, Tsaguim, Hilliard, Hill-Seekings, Allen, Cotton. Subs: Hook, Escorcio, Henson, Foy. Star man: Toby Allen. Attendance: 122.
Parson Drove: Coates, Kent (Hall), Thirkell, Brown, Wallace, Kyereme, Dalton (Doshi), Gilbert, Kingston, Bayole, Mead (Singleterry). Subs (not used): Jackson, Stewart.
Wisbech Town: Watson, Perry-Burrdett, Knowles, Sam Harris, Dear (Ghag 79), Wilson (Young 27), Luke Harris, Gascoigne, Lennon, Ward (Bennett 63), Cavozzi. Attendance: 163.
Whittlesey Athletic: Foulger, Fryett, Waumsley, Kyle Hibbins, Briggs, Lilley, Jobling, Matt Carter, Jack Carter, Kieran Hibbins, Bates. Subs: Papworth-Boston, Williams, Graham, Redhead, Strange.