Cherries 5 Longwell Green 1

Five for the Cherries!

With the cheese festival on in town this weekend and the forecast for fairly gloomy weather, Saturday’s crowd was a little smaller than normal for what turned out unexpectedly to be a high scoring game.   For the first twenty minutes there were a few chances carved out but not a lot to get excited about, although The Cherries seemed to have the upper hand. Then suddenly the ball was played over the visitors defence and Aaron Lane-Leney raced past the defenders to get onto it and blasted the ball into the net from the edge of the penalty area.  Good to see him scoring!  Just three minutes later, from a corner Aaron placed a powerful header past the Longwell Green keeper for his and Stur’s second of the afternoon.  Three minutes later a cross from Adam Hall floated beautifully into the path of George “GC” Coleman who slotted the ball into the back of the net with the ease of a natural forward.  The crowd went wild!

The second half started with much the same pace, but it  was the visitors that struck next with a good goal on 53 minutes to take us to 3-1.  A fourth goal turned up on 65 minutes courtesy of a stray pass back by the away defender following intense pressure from the home forwards which ended up rolling past the keeper and into the back of the net.  Rather than take that result, Sturminster Newton continue to put pressure on the Longwell Green goal, and just three minutes from the end of the 90 minutes, Ben Reed opened his account with a great strike having done some good work with the ball to get himself in a scoring position.

So the game ended 5-1 to the home side and we moved into fourth place, and started to look forward to the visit of Wells City.

Man of the match Aaron Lane-Leney