Gwent Central League round-up (From Free Press Series)

Gwent Central League round-up

All pitches were declared fit for Saturday's Gwent Central League programme.

Top match in Division Two was third-placed team New Inn who were home to second-placed Gilwern B. The match finished up all square at 0-0.

Gilwern B drop from the runners-up spot to 3rd position, New Inn drop from 3rd to 4th. New Inn have a game in hand over Gilwern B.

Govilon move up to second spot with two games in hand.

Prescoed who were declared Division Two champions last week, used up one of their remaining two matches by beating bottom club Abergavenny Thursdays by a massive 20 goals to one, with prolific goal scorer Paul Hannon netting seven goals, taking his goal scoring tally to 37 for the season so far.

Gilwern & District drew their home local derby match with Crickhowell 1-1.

Crickhowell led 1-0 at half-time through a goal after 15 minutes by Rhys Morgan, who scored direct from a corner. Gilwern's equaliser came in the 65th minute from a Simon Williams corner which was headed in at the near post by Graham Rees.

Gilwern hold 6th position, Crickhowell are in 4th spot.

Usk Town had a narrow 2-1 home win on the Island over visitors Clydach Wasps. All the goals were scored in the first half. Peter Smith put Clydach into a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes with a 25-yard screamer.

Ten minutes later, Usk Town were level at 1-1 from an extraordinary goal. Anthony Robinson hit a shot from inside his own half some 60 yards at the Wasps goal, the ball en-route hit a divot and bounced into goal over the keeper's head.

Five minutes later Usk Town were awarded a penalty and Mike Dixon scored from the penalty spot. Usk Town move up from 6th to 5th position while Clydach Wasps are parked in 9th position.

Cwmffrwdoer collected a valuable three points from their 5-3 home win over Lower New Inn. Cwmffrwdo-er led 2-1 at half-time.

Jason McCann hit a Cwmffrwdoer hat-trick including one from the penalty spot and Wayne Saunders got two goals, his first in the 30th minute and the second in the 62nd minute.

Goal scorers for Lower New Inn were Shaun Ellis (2), 10th and 58th minutes and one by Mike Norman in the 80th minute. Cwmffrwdoer are in 7th position and Lower New Inn are 13th.

Mardy recorded a 6-2 home win over Goytre. Mardy were 3-1 up at half-time lead. Goal scorers for Mardy were a hat-trick from Matthew Lynch plus goals by Michael Sage, Matthew McCarthy and Jonathan Davies. The Goytre goals were scored by Gavin Ewers and Dave Jones.

Mardy move up from 11th to 10th position, Goytre drops from 7th to 8th.

Top team of Division Two, Prescoed, were at home to bottom team Abergavenny Thursdays, and at half-time they had established a 12-0 lead before going on to win the match 20 goals to 1.

The Prescoed goals were scored by Paul Hannon (7), Darren Neesham (3), Jamie Gorman (3), Aaron Smith (2), David West (2) and Shaun Bailey, David Allen, Nigel Darch scored one apiece. David Lambert scored a consolation goal for Thursdays.

Blaenavon Blues got back to business with a 6-1 home win over PILCS, Blaenavon Blues led 1-0 at half-time with a goal by Allan Scammels.

Goal scorers for the Blues in the second half were a Ryan Keen hat-trick, Marc Browning and Craig Harris. James Ronan got the PILCS goal. Blaenavon Blues hold 5th position and PILCS are in 6th spot.

Gilwern B drop from second position to third and New Inn drop from 3rd position to 4th position following a 0-0 draw.

There is a real battle going on for the runners-up spot between Govilon, Gilwern B and New In with Govilon favourites at the moment.