Kaden Evans hat-trick fires Edgehill to another cup final win

Fresh from last week’s cup win, the Edgehill boys came into another final missing several key players and without a goalkeeper. Step forward defender Gary Thomas, who volunteered to put the gloves on.

AFC North started brightly and deservedly took the lead after 20 minutes with a superb strike.

Ten minutes later, with Edgehill pushing for an equaliser, AFC North struck again on the counter.

On the stroke of half-time, a superb delivery from Watson found Ryan Link, whose powerful header was his 20th goal of the season

Edgehill came out flying in the second half and equalised after 55 minutes. Excellent work from Joel Ramm released Kaden Evans on the overlap and he fired an unstoppable finish in from a tight angle

Then after 70 minutes, Lewis Taylor played a perfect ball over the top for George Martin, who unselfishly squared for Evans to tap home his second and put Edgehill ahead for the first time

Just five minutes later man of the match Evans smashed a penalty in off the underside of the bar, an AFC North player being sent off for the offence, against George Martin, which led to the spot-kick being awarded.

Special mentions to Dom Richardson and Kieran Link for outstanding performances and Thomas for being the stand-in keeper.

EDGEHILL: Thomas, Watson, Richardson, Henderson (Battye), Cooper (Mustoe), K Link, Taylor, R Link (Jones), Ramm, Evans, Dodds (Martin).

The club would like to give special thanks to match sponsors BGM building & roofing contractors and Scarborough Sports Massage + Sports therapy clinic.

Seamer Sports returned to the top of the Right Car East Riding County League Championship table with a hard-earned 3-2 win on the road against Bridlington Town Rovers Millau at Queensgate on Tuesday night.

A slow start from Seamer allowed Brid to have a lot of the ball early on, but the visitors soon took the lead from a corner when Alfie Pearce tapped in on the line from a Harley Adams cross.

Brid equalised not long into the second half but Seamer regained the lead through Jake Gallagher when he calmly slotted the ball past their keeper.

Millau then levelled but Seamer earned the win five minutes from time, a brilliant cutback from Tyler Duckworth picked out Jake Gallagher and he found the back of the net to spark great celebrations.

This ensured Seamer climbed above AFC North on goal difference – the villagers having two games in hand on their closest rivals.

Hayden Brown hit a brace of goals as Filey Town Development won 4-1 at home to Holme Rovers Development in Division Four.

Aaron Jenking and Theo Watson also notched for the the home side.

Filey Development suffered a 4-1 loss at Brandesburton AFC Academy on Tuesday.

On Saturday, Newby lost 5-2 at Easington United Reserves in Division 1.

Newby lost by the same scoreline at home against Flamborough on Tuesday.