ON paper, the match of the day was in Division Three between leaders Melksham Town A, who took to the road for a visit to in-form Aces FC who, thanks to a seven-match winning run, had moved up to joint second behind Barry Holloway’s side.

The match lived up to expectations as the teams fought out a thrilling 2-2 that saw Melksham’s lead at the top of the table trimmed to one point.

James Dark put Melksham ahead, but they trailed 2-1 at the interval as Greg Richardson got Aces on level terms before Mike Little left his marker Carl Harfield and ghosted in at the back post to give his team the lead.

The second period was action-packed with chances falling at both ends of the pitch, but it was Melksham who found the one that counted with Dan Moore scoring the goal that earned his team a deserved shared of the spoils.

With just one pitch at Leighton Sports Centre being deemed playable on Saturday afternoon, Bratton would have preferred that it was the White Horse v Bradford United Reserves game that went ahead rather than their game with the division’s highest scorers Potterne FC, who had netted an incredible 36 goals in their last three games.

Craig Campbell’s team were in the goals again but their run of hitting double figures came to an end as Bratton battled bravely before suffering a 5-1 loss and that came after they had shocked their guests by taking the lead via a Fosu Gharban wonder strike into the top corner.

That only seemed to spur Potterne into life and they drew level through Neil Clark. Two further goals from Clarke followed as he completed a first-half hat-trick and Ashley Huntley’s goal gave them a 4-1 lead.

A second of the afternoon from Huntley sealed his team's 5-1 success.

FC Box Steam Brewery were in action for the first time since losing prolific striker Reuben Spong to first division North Bradley.

With tougher games on the horizon for the Brewery boys they know that the departure of the 26-goal hitman could eventually hurt them, but he was not missed in the game away at FC Trowbridge which they managed to win 4-0.

Jason Povey, who was carrying an injury and feeling under the weather, gave the Brewery boys the lead - his 31st goal of the season that separated the teams at the break.

Half-time substitute Gavin Ferris, who was making his debut for Phil Webb’s side, was pushed up front with the ailing Povey and their combination worked well as Ferris fired home goals two and three for the Brewery boys before Tom Downes came off the bench and turned in a man of the match performance that was capped with a rare goal to make it 4-0.

The woodwork also came to the rescue of Trowbridge as it denied the winners on at least five occasions.