Northwood St Johns were fortunate to beat Cowes Sports Reserves at the Community Club on Saturday (20th August) after referee Ali Taylor apparently failed to spot the Yachtsmen scoring.
The game began badly for Northwood when keeper Rio Barratt was forced off the pitch injured after 10 minutes with Joe White putting on the goalkeeping jersey.
Aaron Ince drew 1st blood for the home side when he curled the ball into the top corner of the goal (1-0). However, 2 minutes before halftime, Darren Williams equalized for the Yachtsmen, leaping like a salmon to head the ball over substitute keeper White.
Half time: Northwood St Johns 1-1 Cowes Sports Reserves
The Yachtsman appeared to have taken the lead midway through the 2nd half through a Teddy Mumford strike. However, referee Taylor ruled that the ball had first hit the crossbar and then the inside of the post.
10 minutes before the end of the contest, man-of-the-match James Butt took advantage of his side’s lucky reprise to convert a free kick for the home side and ensure Northwood retained all 3 points.
Northwood St Johns: Barratt, Woodford, Butt, Malcolmson, Collins, White, Butt, Ince, Blackmore, Whittle, Clarke Subs: Flux, Jones, MacKenzie
Cowes Sports Reserves: Gearing, Mumford, Cruise, Coshell, Biss, Laird, Voller, Williams, M.Novak, Norton, Pearson Subs: R.Novak, Toms, Holmes
Northwood’s win leaves them in 5th place in the Division 1 table with 7 points from 3 games; Cowes Sports are 9th with 3 points from their 3 games.
In other games …
Shanklin 2-1 Pan Community
Isle of Wight Champions and league leaders Shanklin saw off newly promoted Pan at the County Ground thanks to Ryan Gregory’s and George Carter-Knight’s goals. Pan were forced to play with 10 men over the last 25 minutes after Mark Taylor was sent off and Jack Davies scored a consolation goal for Pan.
West Wight 1-2 Whiecroft & Barton Sports
2nd-placed W&B beat West Wight at Camp Road courtesy of Liam Slaven’s and Alex Wright’s strikes and have won all their league fixtures in the season to date.
Brading Town 1-2 Oakfield
3rd-placed Oakfield maintained their 100% record by seeing off the Romans at the Peter Henry Ground with Lewis Fleming and Nathan Bett on target for the Oakers.
Vectis 1-2 Binstead & COB
Binstead remain unbeaten in the Isle of Wight League after winning at Cowes Community College. Cam O’Rourke and Tom Grandvoinet scored for Binstead, Cutts for Vectis.
Bembridge 10-0 Ryde Saints
Bembridge trounced bottom-of-the-table Ryde Saints with a hat trick from Josh Field, a brace from Sid Roberts, and further goals from Keir Ramage, Ben Field, George Downer, Stu Clark, and Ryan James. Saints – who requested voluntary relegation from Division 1 last season – have now conceded 24 goals in their last 2 games. However, Bembridge manager Justin Malin commented that their young side “never gave up”. The 2 sides meet again at Smallbrook on Wednesday evening.
East Cowes Sports A-A Sandown & Lake
The game was abandoned in the 78th minute after a serious injury to a Sandown player.
Division 2 Results for Saturday 20th August
Carisbrooke United 3-1 Niton Community
East Cowes Vics Reserves 2-0 Seaview
High Park H-W Wootton
Newchurch 0-10 Osborne Coburg
Yarmouth & Calbourne 0-6 Ventnor
Fixtures for Wednesday 24th August
Kick-off is at 18:00
Division 1
Binstead & COB v Whitecroft & Barton Sports
Northwood St Johns v Pan Community
Oakfield v East Cowes Sports
Ryde Saints v Bembridge
Shanklin v Sandown & Lake
West Wight v Cowes Sports
Brading Town v Vectis (19:00)
Division 2
East Cowes Vics Reserves v Yarmouth & Calbourne
Results and fixtures courtesy of Isle of Wight DFA
