Eastern Counties League

League Challenge Cup

1st Round

Tuesday 6th September 2022

Kick Off 19.30 Actual 19.32

Stanway Pegasus 3 Haverhill Borough 0, attendance 121 (official)

26’ 1-0

50’ 2-0 (pen)

62’ 3-0

@ The Stanway School, 3G Pitch

Winstree Road

Stanway

CO3 0QA

£5 Admission

£2 Programme, 12 pages.

Stanway Pegasus have made a good start to life at Step 6 of the Football Pyramid, following promotion from the Essex & Suffolk Border League (Step 7) this season. They are top of Division 1 South after their opening eight matches, which have seen them take 19 points, with just one defeat so far. Haverhill Borough are 9th Division 1 North, having won 2 and lost 2 of their first four games.

Stanway should have gone ahead after 25 minutes, heading wide when unmarked, but they broke the deadlock a minute later, finishing side footed after the ball wasn’t cleared. Twice in the final minute of the first half they could have increased their lead, when firstly a miss hit cross clipped the top of the crossbar, before a shot was cleared off the line.

Five minutes into the second half it was 2-0, when the ’keeper was sent the wrong way from a coolly converted penalty and the scoring was rounded off just after the hour mark, finishing with an angled shot into the far corner, to give the hosts a well deserved win.