Four-some Harkin stars in Adders’ goal feast for Vase progress
ATHERSTONE Town and Rugby Borough breezed through the first qualifying round of the FA Vase on a day when there was no shortage of goals.
The Adders certainly had a day to remember as they romped to a 9-2 win away ti Wednesfield, who play their football in MFL Division One.
Ryan Harkin led the goal spree with four while substitute Toby Nicoll helped himself to a brace. The others came from Lewis Collins, Mitch Woakes and Ryan Quinn. The Adders will now be at home to Shifnal in the next round on September 21.
Rugby Borough crushed Gresley Rovers 4-1 with Antonio Cristofaro scoring a double to add to efforts from Cyrus Bruce and Shaun Ruzvidzo, and will meet next Paget Rangers.
Away from the Vase, Leamington lost 1-0 at Darlington in National League North.
Will Hatfield goal around the halfhour proved enough to hand victory to the Quakers who had managed just one point from their previous three games in National League North. The Brakes huffed and puffed but struggled to create much of note and boss Paul Holleran will be looking for his players to bounce back at home to Rushall Olympic today.
In the Southern League Premier Central, Stratford Town slipped to their first defeat of the season, losing 2-1 at home to Redditch United.
First-half goals from Johnny Johnston and Alex Cameron proved too much of a hill to climb for the out-of-sorts Bards who grabbed an 87th-minute consolation when Callum Ebanks scored with a penalty. Gavin Hurren’s side head to Stourbridge today.
Racing Club Warwick staged a thrilling second-half comeback to beat visitors Sporting Khalsa in the Northern Premier Midland.
Their Black Country opponents looked set to chalk up the win after two goals from Simeon Cobourne and a Kyle Barnett own goal steered them into a 3-1 interval lead, Gregg Mills on target for the Racers.
But the game swung in the second half as the experienced Mills bagged his second two minutes after the restart with Connor Taylor levelling on 74 minutes. Supersub Ben Edmunds then grabbed the winner ten minutes later.
League rivals Rugby Town twice came from behind to earn a 2-2 draw at Sutton Coldfield Town. A Ryan Edmunds penalty and a Cameron Collins effort twice had the hosts ahead, only for Trey Charles to level each time, his 79th minute second also coming from the penalty spot.
Town and Racing Club go head-tohead today at Butlin Road.
Coventry United lost their UCL Premier match at Histon 3-1, Scott Hammond with the consolation.