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Bromham's Dean Rudman gets his pass away despite the close attentions of Brett Cullen, of Calne Eagles (34229/2)

Great Western returned to league action with a comfortable 3-0 victory at Bradford United Reserves.

Shane Godsell got them off to a flying start with a goal after only eight minutes.

The half then settled down, with some good football played by both sides, before Great Western scored a second goal. They caught Bradford with a quick break and Russell Gibbings grabbed the goal.

The second half saw Bradford caught again on a breakaway and Luke Wolfe made it 3-0 to secure the points for Great Western.

Bratton Reserves 1, Trowbridge Wanderers 7

STRUGGLING Bratton Reserves came a cropper against Trowbridge Wanderers as the visitors ran out 7-1 victors.

A Dave Thomas brace gave Wanderers a great start to the match before Neil Gordon pulled a goal back for Bratton. But by half-time Wanderers were 3-1 up as Tom Bennett scored.

The second period started just as badly as the first for Bratton as Tom Bennett scored his second of the match with only seconds played.

It became 5-1 as Paul Reynolds scored on the hour mark. Nigel Penelhum then scored goal number six and the seventh was scored by Paul Matthews with five minutes left to play.

Bromham Reserves 5, Calne Eagles 2

BROMHAM Reserves extended their unbeaten run to six matches by beating local rivals Calne Eagles 5-2 in a competitive and entertaining game.

Despite Bromham starting the game well, it was Calne Eagles who took the lead after 30 minutes when Danny Thompson scored direct from a corner.

Bromham bounced straight back and equalised 10 minutes before the interval when Jim Sandiford headed in at the far post, also from a corner.

In the second half, despite the windy conditions, both teams continued to play good football and it was Bromham who scored next when the impressive Tom Slater got in behind Calne's defence and coolly placed his shot beyond goalkeeper Andy Windsor.

Calne then rallied and had a penalty appeal turned down when Nick Cawley went down in the box and shortly after that Shaun Jefferies was put clean through on goal following a good pass from Darren Axford, but luckily for Bromham, the referee stopped the play to caution Jason Cole for a late tackle on Axford.

Bromham extended their lead when Sam Paget neatly finished off an impressive passing move.

Calne then temporally lost composure and Bromham's clinical all-round play saw them score a further two goals, through Sam Paget and Ben Dawson.

Bromham's Dean Rudman also had a penalty saved by Andy Windsor.

Late in the game, Calne Eagles scored their second goal when free-scoring winger Shaun Jefferies hammered home a shot from close range following good work from Brett Cullen and Nick Cawley.

Mere Town Youth 3, FC Chippenham Youth A 2

MERE Town Youth followed up last week's victory over The Stiffs with a 3-2 win against FC Chippenham Youth A.

Ben Strong opened the scoring for Mere, but just before half-time Chippenham were level through Darren Tubbs.

With only three minutes of the second half played Mere were back in front as Ben Strong scored his second goal. Adam Scourse then made it 3-1 ten minutes later.

With time running out Darren Tubbs then scored his second goal to give Chippenham a glimmer of hope, but it was just not enough.

Seend United Reserves 2, Rowde Sports 3

SEEND United Reserves missed out on the chance to go third as they were beaten 3-2 at home by Rowde Sports.

A Ray King goal was enough to give the visitors the lead at the interval, but Chris Dore equalised for Seend two minutes after the restart before Sam Payne gave them the lead five minutes later.

On the hour mark the match was level again as Ray King tapped in his second of the match from close range.

Jamie Selby grabbed Rowde's winner with three minutes left to play.

The Stiffs 3, Broughton Gifford 6

BOTTOM side The Stiffs started their match against third placed Broughton Gifford with only ten men and within ten minutes they were down to nine as Pete Russ had to go off with an injury.

Just when they thought it couldn't get any worse Brian Wafer then scored an own goal to give Broughton Gifford the lead.

Leigh Rowles-Hitchcock made it 2-0 before Richard Radcliffe made it 3-0 just before the break.

The Stiffs then started a mini-revival as Chris Benton pulled a goal back with the second half only a few minutes old. He then scored a second on the hour mark.

Broughton restored their two goal cushion through Richard Radcliffe's second goal and Simon Bagnall made it 5-2 with 20 minutes left.

It became 6-2 came with only five minutes left when Bagnall grabbed his second.

The last goal went to the man who started it all off, Brian Wafer, only this time it was in the right end with the last kick of the match to make it 6-3.

12:36pm Monday 24th March 2008

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