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Our weekly Round-up for Sunday 17 February 2019. We start as usual with the Cup Competitions, but first we go to our match of the day where we are at Bishops Tachbrook for a top of the table clash between home side Bishops and visitors Chadwick End.
Bishops Tachbrook FC 3 Chadwick End 1
A game of two halves here where the slope made it tough. Chadwick took the lead through Niall McIlduff on the half hour, and were value for it in the first half. Bishops were unable to break down the Chadwick defence and it remained that way till half time.
The second half saw a change in fortunes and Bishops clawed their way back into it. Dean Pugh made it all square within 5 minutes of the re-start. Despite the Bishops pressure Chadwick held on and with the odd breakaway could’ve nicked a goal against the run of play. Up stepped Adam Knight. The young striker had seen the Chadwick keeper deny three golden chances, and finally after 75 minutes, Chadwick failed to clear and the ball bounced through to Knight who slid the ball past the advancing keeper.
With five minutes to go, Chadwick went hunting for the equaliser. Bishops rode their luck when a shot came back of the post. Bishops responded with another long ball clearance over the top and young Knight was on hand to casually lob the stranded keeper from 15 yards. That’s how it finished and Bishops now sit pretty at the Top of the table, three points clear with two games in hand, and an unbeaten record still intact, and with Harbury falling today at VTS some daylight. Chadwick sit in third spot with Warwick Printing close behind.

So we now move on to our Cup matches and we start with The Tracey Thomas Challenge Cup 2018-19 - Round 4

Khalsa 2 Radford Semele 4
Radford move into the next round with a brace apiece from Paul Wilkinson and Jamie Duffy. They left it late after Sukhraj Nijjar scored the fastest goal of the day on 2 minutes to put Khalsa ahead. The score stayed that way until 25 minutes left, then Radford got going. Wilkinson got his brace in 11 minutes to put Radford ahead. Lewis Jarrett then equalised for Khalsa on 80 minutes, but Jamie Duffy popped up on 89 minutes to put Radford back in front, and he then stuck another one away a minute later to make sure.

Leamington Referees' Association George Dutton Challenge Cup 2018-19 - Semi-Final
AFC Warwick 0 Bishops Itchington 4
Bishops booked a slot in the George Dutton Final with a straight forward win here. Andy Yeates , Jordan Cox and a brace from Matt Trinder doing the damage. Trinder putting away his two goals in a rampant 3 minute spell.

Leamington Referees' Association Andy Campbell Challenge Cup 2018-19 - Round 2

Radford Albion 3 Stockton 0
The Division 2 side were too strong for Stockton. A brace from Houghton Paul and one from Daniel Riley were enough to put Albion into the next round.
We move on to League Action now and start in Division 2

Ettington Rovers 6 Dynamo Leamington 1
Joe Gomez grabbed a 70th minute consolation here for Dynamo, but the damage had already been done. James McMillan helped himself to a hat-trick. Matthew Toms notched a brace, and Jon Beacham-Sharpe rounded it off as Ettington romped home.

Heathcote Athletic 2 Long Itchington 1
A tight one here as Heathcote took the points by the odd goal in three. Sam Crawford had put the Long Men in front. Owen Davis levelled five minutes later . Ten minutes after that Darren Saul got the deciding goal. Heathcote held on to take the points. Heathcote close on the Top three with two games in hand.

Kineton S&SC 2 Khalsa Reserves 0
Kineton retain a seven point gap at the Top of the table here, with a Liam Naven-Jones brace to thank for all three points.

Leamington FC Veterans 2 Real Barston 1
The Vets consolidate second spot with three valuable points. James Canning and James Quinlan with a majestic leap and a bullet header from the penalty spot, on target for the Vets. James McDowell getting the Barston consolation with 5 minutes to go to make it interesting.

We move on to Division 3
Harbury 2 VTS Warwick 6
VTS rampant here against Harbury who were pushing for Honours at the Top of the table. Daniel Brierley and Andy Cahill on target for Harbury. VTS goals from Thomas Scott with a hat-trick, Joseph Fisher with a brace and Lee Gold with a single.

Princethorpe 0 Warwick Printing 6
The Printers continue to edge up the Table with a one sided victory here. Kyle King helped himself to a hat-trick, Cory Turner, Chris Calder and Lewis Calder on target for the others.

We move on to Division 4
Blackdown 3 Leamington Hibs Res 1
Hibs Reserves remain in third spot and Blackdown consolidate Top spot. We had own goals at both ends of the pitch but the odd one in three from Matthew Wright made it 2 – 1 in favour of Blackdown. An Adam Hughes penalty on 74 minutes settled it and Blackdown held firm to take the points.

Chadwick End Reserves 8 (eight) Whitnash United 2
Steve Ebdon got out of bed on the right side this morning. He grabbed 5 goals in this one sided affair. Thomas Gold , Thomas Wale and Paul Ndikom got the others. Whitnash consolations from Rhys Bufton and Abhishek Paul .

Stockton United 2 HRI Wellesbourne Reserves 2
A close game here and Stockton may rue the two dropped points Greg Eales and Shamir Entezar on target for the Veg Boys who deserved their point.

Warwick Boar 1 Lillington Juniors Reserves 2
All three points went back with Lillington who had Jordan Bedford and Reece Robbins strike to thank. Jordan David with the Boar strike from the Penalty spot.

In other Cup news Leamington Hibs made progress in the BCFA Sunday Cup.

Leamington Hibs progressed to the Sunday cup semi final after a hard fought game against Tamworth based Welsh Warriors. Hibs came from 2-0 down in the second half with goals from Connor Carson and Josh Blake. Warriors then took the lead 3-2 before Kurt Parsons scored on his debut for Hibs to bring the game square at 3-3. Carl Smedley cooly slotted home on 85 minutes for Hibs to send them into the next round with the game finishing 4-3
Congratulations go to Hibs and good luck in the Semi-Final.