Tuesday, October 29

Kitchen Kit South West Peninsula League Premier West

Callington Town 1

Newquay 4

NEWQUAY gave a clinical display of finishing as they beat Callington Town for the third time this season.

Callington have shown signs of improvement in the last few weeks; including victories over Godolphin Atlantic (Newquay) and Liskeard Athletic in their previous two games — and this continued as they battled well against their more experienced opposition.

The visitors opening goal on 18 minutes was laced with controversy when a Town defender was challenged in his own area by a Newquay attacker whose boot was face height, but with both the referee and linesman looking to each other for assistance and not receiving it, play continued and Jose Perez fired the ball home.

Town turned their anger and frustration at a series of decisions that seemed to go against them in the right way and caused problems for the visitors defence with Ryan Lucassi and Lee Robinson both going close while at the other end, Sam Borthwick in the Callington goal produced a series of fine saves, before an important five minutes before the game made their job so much harder.  

First, Callington defender Josh Freeman Wright came off injured and Newquay took full advantage of the new look back four as Aaron Dilley fired home their second to give them a 2-0 half-time lead.

Another blow for the Marshmen came at the break with an injury to influential midfielder Ricky Coton, but his team mates rallied and for 20 minutes laid siege to the visitors goal but, with them pressing, gaps were bound to appear and on 68 minutes Tom Shepherd capitalised on this to put his side out of reach.

Town continued to compete but were hit again with ten minutes to go when Justin Miles chipped the advancing Borthwick to make it four.

Lucassi put some respectability on the scoreline late with a well-taken goal but the young team were left ruing missed chances.

They don’t have long to wait to put it right though, as Callington travel to Porthleven on Saturday in the league (3pm).