The UNDER 18’s REDS hosted South Newton & Barford Hornets and fell behind early on but they battled back with goals from Cameron Hillier and Ed Williams to record a 2-2 draw.

The UNDER 16’s were also on home soil with Whitchurch United the visitors and didn’t take long to open the scoring.

A short corner routine saw Charlie Young pass the ball in towards the near post where Frankie Moody arrived to send a shot goalwards only for the ball to be diverted behind.

From the resulting corner Moody swung the ball in and Young was there to steer home a header.

Jacob Earle made it 2-0 as he slot the ball home before Young grabbed his second from a Jack Pollard pass on 17 minutes.

The goal of the game came on 22 minutes, courtesy of Pollard but it was the passing in the build up that made it stand out.

Having gained possession in midfield, the ball was worked via Charlie Orchard back to Ethan Standen in goal who moved the ball to the right for Rufus White.

He in turn played into Earle before passing to Harry Hambly who had advanced forward down the right wing.

Hambly played a quick one-two with Moody before the ball was worked inside on the right side of the box and Pollard fired home to round off a fine move.

Young provided number 5 from a left wing cross which Oscar Smith tucked home to complete the half time score.

The second half saw chances for them to increase their lead but some fine goalkeeping by the visitors goalkeeper Leo them at bay, before Smith scored his second midway through the half.

Further saves from the keeper denied them again until late on when Smith completed his hatrick.

Two goal from Josh Scott helped the UNDER 15’s to three points away at CK Andover.

In a fairly close game it was only the last 15 minutes that saw them pull clear to record a 6-3 win with Ben Leeming, Noah Hedge, Ellis Mundy and Elliot Smith all on target.

There was a debut for Astyn Rafferty while Alfie Dean stepped up to go in goal.

Dexter Andrews and Cecil Lomotey were superb with close call seeing the latter pick up player of the match.

The UNDER 14’s WHITES hosted South Newton & Barford Hornets in only their 3rd game of a stop start season.

Having lost 5-1 to their opponents in pre-season, the whites knew they had to be at their best from the off.

Despite missing 3 with long term injuries and 2 more away on holiday, the whites started the strongest in a cagey opening 5 minutes.

Rory Young, was keen to play despite being poorly for the best part of the past week, provided the perfect tonic by openin the scoring after good work from Jack Street.

Street then doubled the lead on 15 minutes with a trademark dribble and strike in to the bottom corner.

Barford continued to look dangerous on the break and but for some strong defending from Fin Fabi and Freddie Green, could well have tested Hugh Wood in the whites goal.

However it with a sublime team goal involving swift passing from Olly Harris, Street and Alex Glover, which cut though the Hornets defence for Tom Harwood to slot home a first time strike to finish off a fine move.

Half time came with the whites looking good to gain their 3rd straight win of a promising season. 

Captain Street came to bolster the defence for the second half, and this proved to blunt any Barford attacks. The whites continued to purr now and Olly Harris was pulling the stings in midfield in his best game of the season so far.

Young quickly made it 4-0 with a trademark strike and an unfortunate own goal after a thunderous cross from Isaac Rawlinson just about sealed the game for the whites. 

It was left to Freddie Green to put the icing on the cake with a beautiful curling shot into the top corner before Young duly completed his hat trick to take the Whites to within 1 point of the top in division 1 with games in hand. 

The UNDER 12’s REDS travelled to a depleted Downton squad and took advantage with 6 goals before an early finish due to the opposition losing two further players through injured.

Rafe Symons added two goals to his season tally before Sam Auton, Jay Burden, Charlie Malcolm and Ollie Webb followed suite.

A special mention to Ollie Barlow who stood in between the sticks making a good save to keep a clean sheet and Finlay Cross who put in a fine performance in his first game for the Reds.

The UNDER 12’s WHITES travelled to Romsey for their final JPL Cup group game.

A strong start saw the whites race in to a two goal lead with a goal each from Tom Latter and Teddy Robinson.

With the teams fate sealed in the group already, a change up of positions was made, which unfortunately let Romsey back in to the game.

Declan Owens fired a strong volley to level the scores at 3-3 and Jonty Simpson added two late goals in an end to end encounter.

The whites then played a rare Sunday game against Bemerton Heath Harlequins and again made a strong start to gain a 4 goal lead, with goals from Jonty Simpson, Tom Latter and two from Ollie Chapman.

With the whites only having 9, a player from each of the u11’s made appearances, with Max Le Page, Dylan Hopkins and Oscar Bullis all putting in strong performances.

Tom Latter finished the game with four goals, and Chapman soon completed his hat-trick before a final quarter in goal, allowing goalkeeper Adrian Wyczolkowski to play in centre midfield, who got his name on the score sheet with a power effort from outside the box.

The UNDER 11’s GREENS had a slow start against Romsey Town probably as a result of several of the team being at Wembley to watch the England Lioness’ the night before.

Caidly Lomotey made a fine debut while Ellie Dutnall scored her first goal of the season before doubling her tally.

Evelyn Cross was also double trouble for the opposition with two goals of her own.

Aidan Willetts scored a hatrick for the UNDER 11’s REDS who travelled to Downton with Jack Bunt and Toby Langstaff also on target.

Tyler Anderson scored his first goal for the club as the UNDER 10’s WHITES were involved in a high scoring game at home to Shirley Tornadoes.

Igor Podsiadlo and Freddie Thom both had their scoring boots on scoring some good goals while Kyan Dreyer and Theo Johnson also weighed in with 4 goals while Fletcher Pike was also on target.

Player of the match went to Thom for his goals and all round team play.

The UNDER 9’s WHITES were involved in a great game of football at tough opponents Braishfield Gold.

Braishfield started well and edged the first half but a few changes for the Whites in the
second half with midfield dynamo Munro Willcox and top scorer Ben Stephens adding much needed energy to the game with Jake Bull dropping into the role of GK, these changes had an immediate impact with Stephens scoring a blinding shot from the from the edge of the pitch into the bottom corner.

He followed up with a second a few minutes later after some excellent break up play from Willcox.

Towards the end of the game the team started to tire and Braishfield ended up top, but some good defending and excellent saves from Bull in goal kept Clarendon competitive and earned him player of the match.

Jacob Elder scored twice for the UNDER 8’s WHITES as they were also away to Braishfield Bees Gold while Kai West was player of the match.

Both UNDER 7’s were on home ground with the REDS hosting Upper Clatford and Evie Provan getting player of the match and also scoring.

Meanwhile the UNDER 7’s WHITES hosted a strong Worthy’s Reds team at home who started on the front foot scoring some good goals before Ethan Glanville grabbed two goals.

The team continued to compete well and their heads never dropped, with some strong tackling and passing and Glanville completed his hatrick.
Special mentions to Ryan Burton, Jude Hart-Short and Leo Gouriet for their tenacious tackling. Reuben Smith for his passing and running. Jason Muzavazi for his breaking forward and shots on goal.

Andy Barnes was player of the match for a fab all round game.

The SATURDAY SENIOR team contributed their good start to the season with a 4-0 win at Waterside Wanderers.

They took the lead on 20 minutes following a run and finish from Steph Gilpin.

Hamish Goulding scored with a 30 yard drive to make in two before the interval.

In the second half it was three as a high up and under from Tyler Harfield from the half way line proved too hot for the keeper to handle on its way back down.

Andy Morton completed the scoring with a 4th at the back post as the keeper spilled a Chey Hayer shot allowing Morton to capitalise.

To round up the weekend, the SUNDAY senior team shared a 6-goal thriller at home to the Village Freehouse.

Callum Taylor opened the scoring on 15 minutes with debutant Scott Conley providing the assist.

The visitors scored twice to lead before Taylor struck his second to equalise.

Taylor turned provider early in the second half for Aidan McMullan to score but Freehouse again hit back to level, and both sides couldn’t force a winner.