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Tuesday 8th July 2025

Kick Off 19.45 On Time!

Sawbridgeworth Town 2 Witham Town 3, attendance 46

1’ 1-0

7’ 2-0

15’ 2-1

30’ 2-2

57’ 2-3

@ Leventhorpe Leisure Centre, 3G Pitch

Cambridge Road

Sawbridgeworth

CB21 9BY

No Admission or Programme.

This was Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division (Step 5) versus Isthmian League Division 1 North (Step 5), played at Leventhorpe Leisure Centre. It’s a standard 3G caged pitch, with spectator access along three quarters of one side.

A near post finish saw Sawbridgeworth go ahead inside the first minute and they doubled their lead six minutes later, when a ball over the top was lobbed over the ‘keeper from the edge of the box. Witham pulled one back after quarter of an hour, with a shot from the edge of the box going in via the underside of the crossbar and they were level by the half hour mark, when a free kick from 25 yards found the bottom corner. There were plenty of changes at halftime for both teams and the only goal of the second half went the way of Witham after fifty seven minutes, when a corner wasn’t cleared and was shot high into the roof of the net.

The journey to Sawbridgeworth was awful. It took close on two and a half hours to drive the sixty odd miles, with the return taking just an hour and a quarter.