St.Mary’s recent form continues as they returned to league action with an away trip to Slyne with Hest, and another great team performance saw them move off the bottom of the table with a hard earned 4 – 2 victory that could and should have been won by a greater margin.
The match started very evenly but St.Mary’s gradually started to take a bit of control of the game and chances started to come for St.Mary’s and the first real chance came on 25 minutes when the ball broke to Matt Martindale 30 yards from goal and his fierce shot smashed against the bar and away to safety. But St.Mary’s got the ball back and a minute later opened the scoring when Tom Hulme got past a defender on the right and played in strike partner Scott Wylie who drove the ball 1st time into the corner of the net from 15 yards. St.Mary’s continued to push forward and a corner from the right went across goal without a touch from a Mary’s player which would have surely doubled the lead. St.Mary’s passing football was causing problems for Slyne but no further goals came in the first half.
Slyne started strongly in the second half and within a minute St.Mary’s keeper brilliantly tipped a fierce shot around the post but on 52 minutes a moment of madness for Slyne when a needless reckless challenge on Sean Pearson led to Slyne being reduced to 10men. With the man advantage St.Mary’s created several chances which they somehow managed to miss from close range. The best chance came on the hour when St.Mary’s were awarded a penalty, but the normally reliable Scott Wylie blasted the ball over the bar.
The penalty miss lifted Slyne and they once again pushed forward and suddenly two defensive errors on 69 and 72 minutes brought Slyne two goals and the lead. But they couldn’t hold on and straight from the kick off St.Mary’s equalised when Leon Creech who caused problems all afternoon scored in the corner from the edge of the box.
With 7 minutes left St.Mary’s regained the lead when Creech broke into the area, his fierce shot was parried by the keeper but Tom Hulme following up fired home injuring himself in the process.
And with game into injury time the points were made safe when Creech again got himself into the area only to be brought down, he picked himself up and sent the keeper the wrong way from the spot to complete the scoring.
A welcome three points from a great team performance, a good debut at the back from new signing Fergus Heyes and with young Leon Creech a thorn in Slyne’s side all afternoon sees St.Mary’s move up 2 places in the table.
St.Mary’s are back in cup action on Saturday in the second round of the LFA Shield when they entertain Fulwood Amateurs with a 2pm Kick Off
St.Mary’s reserves went down to a 5 – 0 home defeat to division three leaders Poulton Reserves.

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