Knauf Insulation Gwent Central League (From Free Press Series)

Knauf Insulation Gwent Central League

Results Saturday, March 4

Division One Pontypool Town P Goytre P Mardy 3 Lower New Inn 3 Gilwern & District P Tranch Utd P Blaenavon Blues P Clydach Wasps P Govilon P Usk Town P Llanarth 1 Cwmffrwdoer 4

Division Two Crickhowell P Pandy P Fairfield Utd P New Inn P Usk Town B 1 PILCS 0 Clydach Wasps B P Aber Thursdays P Sebastopol P Mardy B P Llanfoist 5 Prescoed 3

Fixtures Saturday, March 11

P&P Pest Control Open Cup - Quarter Final (kick off 2.30pm) New Inn v Clydach Wasps A Pontypool Town v Govilon

A Jones & Co (Usk) Ltd Langdon Cup - Quarter Final (kick off 2.30pm) Lower New Inn v Llanarth

Division One (kick off 3pm) Mardy v Cwmffrwdoer Usk Town v Gilwern & District

A Jones & Co (Usk) Ltd Benevolent cup Quarter Final replay (kick off 2.30pm) Mardy B v PILCS Division Two Llanfoist v Pandy Fairfield Utd v Gilwern & District B Llanarth B v Crickhowell Pontypool Town B v Prescoed (to be played at Prescoed) Clydach Wasps B v Sebastopol

Only four games survived the present freeze up, but on the day these were played in warm sunshine.

In a Division One basement battle Mardy played hosts to Lower New Inn and the sides finished up all square at 3-3 and both take a share of the points. Goal scorers for Mardy were Ross Povey, Matthew McCarthy plus a James Copeland penalty. Goal scorers for Lower New Inn were two by Rob Morter plus one from Kyle Hazard. MOM Mardy: Simon Phillips. MOM Lower New Inn: Rob Morter.

There was a good attendance at the Llanarth v Cwmffrwdoer match which Cwmffrwdoer won 4-1 away. The goal scorers for Cwmffrwdoer were Ross Peake (2), Kyle Palfrey and Jamie Roch. Toby Preece scored a consolation goal for Llanarth. MOM Llanarth: Colin Morgan. MOM Cwmffrwdoer: Ross Peake.

Prescoed still lead Division Two with a four point gap over second placed team Pandy, but they have used up their game in hand by being beaten 5-3 to newcomers Llanfoist. Prescoed won the Division Two title for the last two years and look favourites to retain their title this season with just six months to go. Prescoed beat Llanfoist 6-0 when the teams met on November 12, 2005 but everyone at Llanfoist FC felt that they should have done better and they worked out their game plan for the return match and Llanfoist came up trumps.

After the first 20 minutes of the game Llanfoist had established a 4-0 lead with an opening goal scored by Joe Morgan, followed by a hat-trick from prolific goal scorer Gareth Williams. Prescoed then got their game going and stopped the Llanfoist goal machine from scoring any more in the first half.

At the start of the second half Prescoed appeared to be getting on top and they managed to pull back the score to 4-3 with goals by Ian Williams, Jay Roberts and Anthony Jones, but then Prescoed started to look a bit jaded and Nathan Jones scored Llanfoist's fifth goal for the 5-3 win and marked Prescoed's first defeat this season from 22 games. MOM Prescoed: Anthony Jones. MOM Llanfoist: goal-keeper Darren Rudd.

Usk Town B beat visitors PILCS on the Island 1-0. The all important goal was scored in the 70th minute by Lee Watkins following a Rees Pritchard corner which was headed at the PILCS goal by Steve Wade, but was brilliantly saved by the PILCS keeper Kevin Brooks. Lee Watkins pounced on the loose ball to score from close range. MOM Usk Town B: Rees Pritchard. MOM PILCS: Justin Edmunds.

All cups should have been returned to the League Chairman, Mr Skinner, by March 1.