Devon & Exeter League

Morrison Bell Cup 1st Round

Sunday 17th March 2019

Kick Off 12.00 Actual 12.01

Seaton Town 2 Ottery St. Mary 3, attendance 18

14’ 0-1

60’ 1-1

72’ 2-1

90’ 2-2

90’ + 1, 2-3

@ Axminster Leisure Centre, 3G Pitch

Lyme Road (B3261)

Axminster

EX13 5AZ

No Admission or Programme.

This match had been postponed on the last two Sundays due to a waterlogged pitch at their own ground, so the 3G Pitch here in Axminster was booked to enable the game would definitely go ahead.

This is a local cup competition for clubs in this area of East Devon. Seaton last won the cup in 2012, but you have to go back to 1988 for the last time Ottery lifted the trophy.

It was hard to tell which one of these two play at the higher level, such was the way the match went, as it could have gone either way. Seaton are third from bottom in the Premier Division, whilst Ottery are top of Division 3, so it was a bit of a leveller. Ottery took an early lead and were very comfortable, but when Seaton equalised on the hour mark, the game changed, and Seaton went 2-1 up twelve minutes later and it looked like that would be it. Ottery were looking tired and created very little, but somehow, in the last minute they managed to scramble in an equaliser from a corner. It looked like we would be heading to extra time, but a minute into added time, Ottery broke away and their left winger cut inside and fired the winning goal into the far corner of the net.