DIVISION ONE: Semington Rovers are sitting pretty at the top of the table their 3-1 triumph at home to Chippenham Sports and Social Club allowed them to stay just in front of the chasing pack, which is led by North Bradley who were in cup action.

Semington eventually came away victorious in a game that, but for the heroics of Graham Jones in the Sports goal and some poor finishing, they should have wrapped up by half-time.

Rovers, who were missing several key players including three of their normal back four, started the game well and created numerous chances. Stuart Barber finally made the breakthrough after 17 minutes after some great work from Nathan Keegan on the wing. Semington seemed to be able to break the Sports defence at will, but were shocked on 33 minutes when the Sports drew level. Sports, who were having their best spell of the game, hit Rovers with a swift counterattack and, after a good save from Tom Wysocki, substitute Simon Hansen finished well at the back post.

Rovers then had to withstand some pressure from Sports, but they went into the half-time break level.

Semington came out strongly again at the start of the second half and it was not long before Barber added his second of the game. Another flowing move was finished with aplomb by Barber, who drilled in a precise low shot from the edge of the area.

With 60 minutes on the clock Semington effectively finished the game when Josh Mills scored their third goal. Mills found himself through on goal and slotted the ball in the corner past the outstanding Jones.

Sports continued to battle, but could not find a way past the makeshift Rovers defence, in which Darren Reeks and Kelvin Lockwood had great games.

The match was played in a great spirit from start to finish, and some of the football played on a very heavy pitch was a joy to watch.

In a thrilling game at Priestly Grove, Calne, Christian Malford came from behind three times to snatch an unexpected 5-4 away victory over promotion hopefuls North Star A.

Malford started very brightly and after three minutes took the lead when Chris Crome's delightful overhead kick gave Star goalkeeper Chris McLaughlin no chance.

Star came back into the game and soon started to open up the Malford defence with some very good football.

Mark Dolman had a couple of early attempts that needed last minute clearances. After 21 minutes Star equalised when Mike Bell volleyed home an excellent through ball from Tommy Ludford. Five minutes later the hosts were in front when Malford were pressured into conceding a corner and Mike Bell rose above everybody to head home strongly.

At this stage North Star were starting to dominate and were continually causing the Malford defence problems, particularly with the strong runs of Mark Dolman. Malford however began to get back into the game, with right winger Aaron Merryweather's runs drawing several free kicks. After 32 minutes Chris Crome's volley from outside the area surprised the Star goalkeeper to bring Malford level. Star were denied the lead just before half-time when Ronnie Kallmeier's goal bound header was clawed off the line by Malford goalkeeper Stuart Godwin.

The second half opened controversially when from virtually their first attack North Star claimed the ball had crossed the line before defender Jamie Munns cleared. The referee however decided it had not, but gave a penalty for a foul on Mark Dolman. Pete Thornton made no mistake from the spot to give the Star a 3-2 lead.

Although Malford were mainly on the defensive, the speed of their forwards was also causing Star problems. After 62 minutes Malford equalised again when Matt Thompson brought the ball out of defence, slotted a through pass to Aaron Merryweather, who sidestepped a defender before laying the ball off to Chris Crome to complete his hat-trick.

Malford lost their concentration from the re-start and some sloppy defending led to Mark Dolman sliding the ball under the Malford goalkeeper to regain the lead for the Star at 4-3.

Malford did not give up and after some neat work on the Malford left, Chris Pitman volleyed home to bring the scores level at 4-4. Both teams began to slow down noticeably as the game wore on. After 85 minutes Malford's Aaron Merryweather chased a long ball out of defence. Although the Star keeper got to the ball first his clearance cannoned into the Malford forward and back towards his goal and Merryweather made sure the ball crossed the line to give Malford the lead.

Although Star pressed, Malford saw out the game to take a hard won victory.

Both teams played the game in an excellent spirit and credit went to Bruce Harris who refereed the game very well.

Hullavington eased their relegation fears a little as their 5-0 success over the Foresters Arms earned them their first win since early October and ended an 11 match winless run to move off the bottom of the table.

Foresters manager Dave Robinson returned to Melksham not knowing how his team had failed to score from any of their several opportunities which in the end proved costly as once Louis Slater had opened the scoring for the villagers they took hold of the game and doubles from Antony Last and Mike Ward completed a super win which could well lead to greater things for Hullavington who could yet avoid the drop.

Once again Chippenham Police were left kicking themselves after failing to convert good chances and giving away soft goals.

The police entertained Coyote FC who started with eight players and found themselves one down to John Thompson goal.

After 15 minutes Coyote were up to full strength and had turned the game around before the break as Lee Murden scored direct from a corner to tie the scores and Jamie Young netted to give them a half-time lead.

Coyote's keeper Tom Berryman was in sparkling form in the second period when he kept out several good efforts from the police. And after Berryman's heroics the points were in the bag when the police goalkeeper Martin Notman flapped at a harmless cross that led to Young scoring his second goal. Pete Spong added the fourth near the end.

The police finished a miserable morning when Julian Kirby missed his third penalty in a row and had the indignity of injuring his knee as he took the spot kick.