Basingstoke & District Saturday League Match Reports

Basingstoke A Cup Quarter Final
D.C.U.K. moved through to the Semi Finals of the Basingstoke A Cup after beating AFC Aldermaston Reserves 5-1 away. A cross from Ben Nicholls in the 10th minute was headed home by Finlay Hall and with twenty minutes gone Ashley Elward put them two ahead after a centre from Ross Harwood. Aldermaston replied within a minute through Carl Amen, but just before half time Stuart Austen restored the two goal advantage. A long ball from Jamie Ballantyne in the 70th was put away by Lorne Howard and the final goal came from a cross by Howard in the 85th minute, netted by Nicholls.

Basingstoke Saturday League
Division Two.
There was plenty of goals again for basement club Longdog Soldiers, but the first league success eluded them as they went down 6-5 to Twentyten Reserves. Matt Trodd gave them an early lead, but in the 14th Dan Hancock equalized when his penalty kick was saved by keeper Jake Barnes and he followed up to net the rebound and quick goals from Ryan Lupton and Jack Clarke put Twentyten 3-1 up. Tom Adams pulled a goal back before the break, but in the 54th Hancock scored his second for a 4-2 lead. Adams scored again for Longdog, but Hancock completed his hat trick with twenty minutes to go. Longdog struck again through Sam Trodd and then he made it 5-5 with a curling free kick. In the 90th minute Twentyten came up with the winner when Olly Lacey was on the end of a cross from Clarke and made no mistake.

AFC Aldermaston A could not field enough players to play Chineham and are finding it difficult raising enough players to fulfill all three teams. The club is looking for players and anyone looking for a club should ring Gary Bone on 07717215765