Hosts Filey Town sunk by late Kingswood United double
Filey Town were left frustrated on Saturday as they suffered a narrow 2-1 defeat at home to Kingswood United in Saturday’s evenly contested Right Car East Riding County League Premiership encounter.
The first half was a closely-fought affair, with both sides competing well and creating opportunities, but neither could find a breakthrough before the interval.
Town started the second half positively and, after Ollie Milner had missed two good opportunities, he eventually found the net to give Filey the lead.
However, with 15 minutes remaining, Kingswood were awarded what Town felt was a soft penalty, which they converted to level the scores.
The visitors then completed the turnaround with 10 minutes remaining when a substitute found the net to put Kingswood 2-1 ahead.
Despite pushing for an equaliser, Town were unable to find a way back into the game.
Despite being disappointed with the result, manager David Brannan was pleased with the effort and overall performance of his side, believing there were plenty of positives to take from the game.
Brannan was particularly keen to highlight the performance of 18-year-old Kobi Crawford, who impressed in this big game.
The club would also like to thank Bodens Plumbing for sponsoring Saturday's game and for their continued support.
A Jake Gallagher hat-trick helped Seamer Sports continue their resurgence with a 5-2 victory at South Cave United Reserves on Saturday.Seamer moved away from the relegation zone with this victory.
The visitors started slowly, then came a great ball from Gallagher in behind with Zack Hastie chasing in behind just beating the keeper and tucking the ball past him.
Five minutes later Cave sent a long ball after a Seamer free-kick and levelled the scores.
Cave came out the gates quickly at half-time and went ahead despite strong Seamer appeals for offside.
Man of the match Gallagher’s first goal came after Reggie Steels played him through on goal, Gallagher smashing his shot into the top corner to make it 2-2.
Seamer took the lead again after a whipped free-kick near the corner flag from Harley Thornton passed by everyone and flew straight into the net.
Some tricky Hastie play saw him beat his defender and then being tripped in the box for a penalty, up stepped Gallagher to put Seamer 4-2 ahead.
With 15 minutes to go a ball into the box from Thornton saw Gallagher bring it down and roll it past the keeper to seal his hat-trick.
Hunmanby FC roared to a 7-1 win at Pocklington Town 3rds to carry on their fine run in Division Four.
Billy Lawson led the way with a hat-trick, Dec Richardson adding a brace of goals, sub Shaun Thomas-Isacc and Jordan Herbert also notching.
Hunmanby FC Reserves dug deep for a 4-3 home win against Newbold in Division 5.
Cooper England led the way with two goals and two assists, with Cal Gladstone and Alfie Buglass also on target.
AFC Eastfield suffered their first Division 3 defeat of the season as a clinical, heavily-experienced Flying Pig side secured a comfortable 3-0 victory.
The hosts relied on their higher-level pedigree and physical dominance to disrupt Eastfield’s perfect start to the campaign, putting the game to bed early in the second half.
Flying Pig built a 2-0 lead before the break. The second goal arrived in dramatic fashion just before half-time, Eastfield goalkeeper Kian Drury made a brilliant initial save from a penalty, but the hosts reacted quickest, slotting home the rebound to double their advantage and leave Eastfield with a mountain to climb.
Any hopes of an Eastfield comeback were firmly dashed early in the second half. Flying Pig struck a definitive third goal to make it 3-0.
Man of the Match for Eastfield was Liam Mintoft.