Club pride at stake in final

TWO teams from the ROCS club will go head to head in the under-15s/under-16s North Manchester Girls League Knockout Cup final next month.

The under-15s, with goals from Rhema Mears (two), Lauren Steel and Fern Madeley recorded a 4-0 win over Oldham Athletic Girls.

Megan Jackson scored twice for the under-16s in a 5-2 defeat of Heyside Angels in the other last-four tie. Faye Hardicre, Emma Watson and Bethany Ormrod were also on the mark.


HEYSIDE Angels are on course for Knockout Cup glory on four fronts.

Under-14s Blue had Kayleigh Larkin (three), Leoni Harland and Sophie Montgomery on target in a 5-0 defeat of Oldham Athletic Girls in the last four.

Natalie Giblin and Alix Sephton scored for the under-13s in a 2-0 win over Curzon Ashton, and goals from Ellie Doggett and Tanisha Williams helped under-12s Inter to a 2-0 success against Uppermill.

Under-11s Whites are also through to the final after they defeated Harpurhey Demons 2-1. Ella Rigby and Molly Taylor were on the mark.

In the league, under-11s Blue had Sophie Norbury and Antonia Keogh on target in a 2-1 victory over Droylsden Girls, and Abbie Andrews (two), Katie Jones (two), Sophia Harper and Briony Jenkins found the back of the net for Clarets under-16s, who brushed aside Moston Juniors 6-1.




KATIE Lockwood’s third goal of the game with just 30 seconds left on the clock put Uppermill under-11s on course for a 3-2 win against Oldham Athletic Girls.



But Athletic clinched a share of the spoils with a great effort immediately from the restart.

After a disappointing end to their 19-game unbeaten run, Uppermill under-14s responded in style with an emphatic 12-0 win over Chadderton Park.

Ellen Bergin was the star of the show with six goals, Megan Ashton completed a hat-trick, Jayme Butler-Jones got two and Chantelle Davies the other.




CHADDERTON Park under-13s enjoyed a 4-1 win over Uppermill.



Other results and scorers are —

UNDER-10S KNOCKOUT CUP SEMI-FINAL: Chadderton Park 4, Heyside Angels Clarets 0.




Tameside Sunday League



SPRINGHEAD under-14s tightened their grip on top spot with a 6-2 win over Clayton Villa in the Tameside Sunday League.



Kaimmen Morris was the inspiration — he scored four times — while Jordan Broadbent, after a one-two with Sebastian Sheldon, and Jordan Mortimer getting the other goals.

Springhead’s margin of victory would have been much greater but for the performance of the Clayton ’keeper.




TWO goals apiece from Tom Maloney and Charlie Burton, plus a Lewis Henderson effort, clinched a 5-1 win for Chaddy End FC under-13s over Marauders Panthers.



David Brown (two), Coby Tyrell and Zak Porter struck for the under-15s, but they had to settle for a 4-4 draw against Curzon Ashton, and the under-16s overcame Fletcher Moss 2-0.




CAMERON Thorpe notched a hat-trick and Richard Salt also scored for Failsworth Town under-13s against Manchester Maccabi, but their efforts were in vain as they went down 11-4.






ROCS FC under-15s, thanks to double strikes from David Clegg and Ryan McMylor, enjoyed a comfortable 4-1 win over AFC Oldham.






ROSS Young hit a hat-trick, James Mellor scored twice and Joe Royal got the other as Boundary Park Juniors under-13s ‘B’ beat Dukinfield Tigers 6-2.






HEYSIDE Juniors under-14s, who have only tasted defeat once this season and that was on the opening day, are riding high after a 2-1 win over Gamesley Villa. Michael Pass and Matthew Whitehead weighed in with the






North Bury Junior League



GOALS from Aaron Clegg and Matt Cunningham were in vain as Chadderton Park under-11s were beaten 4-2 by runaway leaders Moston Juniors.



Other results and scorers are —

UNDER-10S: Chadderton Park Eagles 1 (Christian Thickett), Wardle and Smithybridge 0.




Magic Moth lifts Oldham



OLDHAM under-14s picked up three precious points in the Greater Manchester Schools’ League with a 1-0 win against Trafford at Ashton-on-Mersey School.



Dillon Moth (South Chadderton) grabbed the only goal of the game after 23 minutes.

They also gave a good account of themselves earlier in the week when they went down 1-0 to a strong Liverpool side in their first-round Woodward Trophy tie.

The under-14s are in league action on Saturday when meet Salford at Broughton (kick-off 10.30am).

Meanwhile, the under-15s play Manchester in the last eight of the County Cup on Saturday at a venue to be confirmed (10.30am).




Chadderton.Hat-trick hero is bright spark



LEFT-BACK Daniel Bright hit a hat-trick for Avro Juniors under-14s, who displayed bags of spirit to get the better of Fog Lane Dynamos in a thrilling County Cup tie.



Trailing 2-0 at the interval, the local outfit forced extra time thanks to Bright’s double, his second coming with only moments to spare.

The defender went on to complete a treble, only for Fog Lane to score with the last kick of extra time to set up a penalty shoot-out.

But ’keeper Dom Wharton saved twice as Avro progressed 4-3 in the spot-kick decider.