Basingstoke & District Saturday League Match Reports

Basingstoke “A” Cup First Round.

Hook started their defence of the Basingstoke A Cup at the King George V playing Fields and cruised through to the second round after a very easy 7-1 win against Bounty United. It took them five minutes to take the lead when Andy Parker ran on to a pass from James Neville and made no mistake and soon after this Dan Mellors made it 2-0 from a Pete Silvester assist. By half time it was 4-0, a solo effort from Tom Davies and Parker his second. Bounty then conceded a penalty, put away by Davies and then Morgan Davies made it 6-0. Bounty hit back with a goal from Adrian Biggins from a Dan King assist, but Hook scored their seventh through Kieran Farmer.

Basingstoke B Cup First Round.

Herriard Sports won this cup at Winklebury last season, beating hot favourites Tron FC and now they are on their way again after disposing of Overton United B with a 6-0 win at Berrydown. The previous week Overton managed a 2-2 draw in the league against Herriard, but his week the squad was strengthened with the return pf Chris Dobbie who added two more goals to his already impressive seventeen. It took them 30 minutes to break down the Overton defence, when Dobbie put Karl Buttle through and then a free kick from Matt Goodman was headed home by Andy Roberts. In the 55th Roberts netted his second and in the 70th Dobbie, following a fine cross from Simon Jane, scored with a diving header. It the closing stages Ben Haskins and Dobbie added further goals.

Longdog Soldiers are also through, but it took them into extra time before beating Chineham 4-2. It was Chineham who took the lead after eight minutes when Tommy Collingridge put away a pass from Jake Ashton. They held this lead until the 52nd minute when Sam Mosdell equalized from a penalty. Jake Pratchett with a volley scored again for Longdog, but a penalty in the 81st from Anthony Hosey forced extra time and in the extra period Max Trodd scored twice to see them through.

Hampshire Junior B cup First Round.

Twetnyten Reserves traveled to the Isle of Wight where they made their exit from the Hampshire Junior B Cup, beaten 4-1 by Bayside. Manager Graham Jenkins felt the score flattered the home side, who went four down before Jenkins made it 4-1, a volley from eight yards following a Franklin Spacagna cross. Dan Hancock had two good chances to bring the game back into contention, but was off target.

Basingstoke Saturday League

Division One

It proved a well contested, eventful local derby between AFC Aldermaston Reserves and Tadley Calleva A at Barlows Park, but was marred by two being sent off, one from each side. The game ended in a 1-1 draw, but Aldermaston came very close to having their first win of the season. It was Aldermaston who took a 35th minute lead when Tommy James sent over a good ball, it was met by Kieran Hylton who beat defender Barry Stafford shot past Liam Belcher. Liam is normally an outfield player but had to play in goal with no keepers available.. Richardson almost made it 2-0 when his shot hit the post, but in the 60th minute a hard tackle ended in the sending off. Carl Allen made the challenge on Dan Walkley and after a scuffle both were shown red cards. Tadley were now on top and kept battling for the equalizer with Stephen Burgess and Michael Abbott going close and then in the 89th minute in came. A ball in the box was not cleared well and Charlie Saunders .fired into the net.

Basingstoke Royals move into top spot after beating former leaders Basingstoke United 3-2. In the 30th minute a back pass led to Luke Richardson giving Royals the lead. United equalized in the 5oth minute and then went ahead on the hour. .A decent centre from Cullum Chilcott was finished of by Reese Chapman. Royals leveled in the 75th through Stephen Price and then came the winner with five to go. Stuart Urquhart with a volley following a Craig Barker free kick.


Basingstoke Athletic still to get off the mark and remain bottom of the table after losing 4-1 to Twentyten. They did well enough in the first half and in fact took a 15th minute lead with a first time shot from Kieran Challis. Twentyten found them difficult to break down, but eventually equalized when Joe Osborne took a pass from Danny Vallance before half time. Vallance then played through to Joe Hill who put them 2-1 ahead by the 65th and it was Vallance who came up with the other two goals in the late stages.

Division Two

Winklebury Wizards takes over top spot in Division Two following their comfortable 4-0 away win against AFC Aldermaston A. Even though they trailed 1-0 at half time Aldermaston had a good first half, their closest to scoring from Alex Roberts. The Wizards goal came in the 5th minute when Jack Arthur headed home a Richard Louther corner kick. In the 46th minute George Lagden made it 2-0 and it was another corner, this time taken by Dan Goodyear that was finished off by Dean Scott for a three goal advantage by the 60th minute. The fourth came soon after when Josh Arthur went on a solo run and his 18 yard shot ended in the top corner.

It is a very rare event for AFC Berg to come off with a double figure victory, but happened against newcomers Origin, beating them 12-0. Origin manager Dave Hawkins brought in some new faces, but Berg proved much the better side and went seven up by the break. In the end hat tricks came from Joe Hodge, Graham Dwyer and Kieran Alleyne, now free to play after suspension, two for Dan Deadman and Paul Crowe the twelfth.