Saint Nicks The Points...Dun Cow suffered a rare defeat on Sunday, writes Darren "Statto" Jones (statto@cssfl.info).

In the Herts Intermediate Cup, the Junior Cup winners of two seasons ago, Bedwell Rangers, travelled to Wormley to take on Turnford Rangers. Despite the opponents having ten men, Bedwell did not make their chances count until the deadlock was finally broken as Alex Willcocks bulldozed his way through the backline to blast home from the edge of the box. The second-half continued in the same vein, and Luke Smith struck a hat-trick to give the scoreline a more reasonable look about it. The home side scored in the dying minutes from a penalty but Bedwell went through 4-1.

Benington had a walkover against AC Medz.

The only downside for our clubs came as Kenny Liggett, Scott Ross and Tony Steele were on target for Coach and Horses, but they went down 6-3 to visitors Thorley Saints.

A solid performance in central-midfield from Carl Fletcher and Ryan Smales contributed to Premier Division saw champions Dun Cow suffering their first defeat in some time. A brace from Charlie Barnett helped St Nicholas take the points. Smales grabbed the other as the whole team put in a good shift. John Vooght scored a Cow consolation as they went down 3-1.

Billet hammered Marquis of Lorne 7-3 to stay top of the league. The goals came from Russell Cox (two), Dean Thomas (two), Elliott Bunn, Dwayne Grant and Marc Holmes. Sam Gittings, Dave Locke and Frazer Triggs replied for Lorne as they look for their first point.

Josh Dance and Luke Rowland were on target as Olympic Nirankari continued their perfect start with a 2-0 win over Real Stevenage to move them into second.

A poor King Pin United performance saw them easily beaten by Broadhall, who grabbed their first points of the season. They were punished by some well worked goals and for not battling for the ball. Two goals in each half courtesy of Martin Thomas (two), Scott Durham and debutant Leslie Chappell did the damage. Dan Hartland grabbed a consolation strike with a tidy finish after a defence splitting ball from Gareth Clarke to make it 4-1.

Division One leaders MBDA continued their destructive start with five goals before the break against AJS Tyres Broadhall, who are just struggling to make that next step after such a meteoric rise through the divisions since their step up from youth football. AJS did have some early chances, but Craig Sutherill set the ball rolling after twenty minutes, hitting an unstoppable shot from just outside the box past the despairing dive of the ‘keeper. A neat side-foot finish from Ashley Kersey after good work from Gary Hodgson made it two and the third was another beauty from Sutherill, he took a touch to set himself and curled the ball in off the far post round the defender, leaving the ‘keeper rooted to the spot. The next goal came via a corner, the ball sat up for Alan Kenney to convert with an overhead kick. A long throw-in from the left then evaded everyone and Gav Bowler took a touch eight yards out and sliced the ball home. After the break, two more goals in as many minutes threatened a landslide score, but AJS never gave up and were unlucky not to grab a consolation goal. Hodgson again set up Kersey, who powered home before Hodgson finished with a controlled volley for 7-0 after Kersey’s shot had come off the bar.

MKS Carpentry had the better of the first-half, but failed to make the most of their chances including a Rickie Nash effort which was cleared off the line. In the second-half, Lifestyles had the better of and they converted their only real chance on the hour through Ryan Ellis as they also kept up their 100 percent record.

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