Posted by Admin on April 15th, 2012 | Comments Off
After a good week for the club Westella & Willerby’s push for the CML North Division title took a jolt following a 3-2 home defeat to Kinsley Boys.
The week started well on Saturday 7th April when the Reserves defeated Hodgsons 6-3 at Hill Top. In a good team performance goals came from Jordan Callis 2, Callum Stone 2, Tom Dent and Mike Pecora.
Monday 9th saw the first team travel to Clay Cross to play Parkhouse. With rain falling overnight and throughout the game this was always going to be a tricky fixture. After taking a 2-0 lead Ella were pegged back to 2-2 by the spirited home side. However Ella secured a victory with a goal 8 minutes from time. Goals came from Matt Fyvie and a Phil Winn brace.
To cap a fine few days, on Tuesday 10th the Reserves secured Humber Premier League Premier Division status with an excellent 1-0 win over fourth placed North Cave. Again team spirit was in abundance in a keenly contested game. It took a last minute screamer from Sam Pullman to secure the points and send everyone home happy.
On Saturday, with the grass pitch at Bishop Burton College unfit, the game took place on the 4G pitch next door. It was the visitors who started much the better with the wind behind them. After Adam Cameron and Carl Wilson had both gone close Kinsley took the lead on 23 minutes when Cameron set up Nash Connolly, who lifted the ball over Rick Watson from 20 yards. Ella struggled to make any in-roads against a well organised and enthusiastic opposition with only a couple of strikes from Owen Mountain and Rob Petch testing Ian McHarg in the visitors’ goal. At the other end Watson was forced to pull off a further two excellent saves from Cameron and Ben Phillips.
The second period saw Ella make a couple of changes and almost immediately it paid off with sub Mike Pecora netting following a Bobby Stevenson pass. Kinsley responded quickly and on 55 minutes they took a 2-1 lead with Connolly netting his second from close range following an excellent Callum Stapleton free kick. Ella responded and began to dominate possession and create chances. On 63 minutes Andy Coverdale set up Stevenson whose shot was turned on to a post by McHarg and on 68 minutes Jonny Slater set up Chris Spinks who fired against the bar from 12 yards. Ella equalised on 72 minutes when neat interplay between Stevenson and Coverdale saw Coverdale burst through and round keeper McHarg to slide the ball home. Once again though Ella were unable to retain parity and on 73 minutes Kinsley went 3-2 ahead. Following sloppy play in the middle of the park Liam Haller was able to play in an unmarked Wilson who fired home. Ella pushed desperately for an equaliser and created a number of opportunities with a Spinks shot and Mountain header testing McHarg. Right on full time they thought they had equalised when a Phil Winn header was signalled as having crossed the line but a free kick was given for a foul on McHarg and to make matters worse Stevenson was shown a red card for something said to the referee.
Westella: Rick Watson (c), Craig Havercroft (Tom Andrews), Andy Coverdale, Bobby Stevenson, Phil Winn, Gareth Slater, Chris Spinks, Owen Mountain, Matt Fyvie, Rob Petch (Mike Pecora), Mike Thompson (Jonathan Slater)