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Wednesday 17th July 2024

Kick Off 19.45 Actual 19.47

Tiptree Heath 1 Stanway Pegasus 7, attendance 49

8’ 0-1 (pen), 16’ 1-1, 25’ 1-2, 29’ 1-3, 42’ 1-4

49’ 1-5, 57’ 1-6, 77’ 1-7

@ Philip Morant School & College, 3G Pitch

Rembrandt Way

Colchester

CO3 4QS

No Admission or Programme.

This was Essex & Suffolk Border League Premier Division (Step 7) versus Eastern Counties League Division 1 North (Step 6). Despite only being one level difference between the two sides, the gulf between them was massive, with Tiptree fielding one trialist in their starting eleven, as well as having another five included in their eight substitutes. Stanway took the lead through an early penalty, but were soon pegged back when a ball pulled back from the right was finished into the far corner. Two more goals saw the visitors go 1-3 up just before the half hour mark, before a long range shot, which went in off the underside of the crossbar, saw them increase their lead just before halftime. The second half was very much one way traffic, with Stanway attacking at will and it could easily have been double figures in the end. Pick of the goals was their seventh, a thirty yarder that gave the ‘keeper no chance.

The game was played on the 3G pitch at Philip Morant School & College, which is a standard cage set up, with spectator viewing along three quarters of one side.