Stroud & District Football League Division 3

Minchinhampton FC 3

Uley 0

Another three points, a clean sheet and another step forward on the quest for promotion.

With captain Riki Noble and fellow defender Andy Thomas missing a reshuffled Minch side took to the pitch, but this didn't seem to knock them out of their stride taking an early lead with Jamie Lees providing a cross from the right which Jack Hornsby bundled home from close range.

Numerous chances ensued but wayward finishing and an in form Uley keeper, the evergreen Sandor Toth, kept Minch from increasing their lead.

At the other end Uley almost drew parity but stand in skipper Ryan Edwards cleared off the line.

The second period saw Ollie Osborne-Shill atone for a first half miss when he fired in a driven shot which arced away from the keeper and into the net and in doing so doubled the home side's lead.

Late on a frustrated Jack Hornsby combined well with Liam St Clair Moore to get free and finished sharply at the near post, finally getting the better of his nemesis in this game, Sandor Toth in the Uley goal.

Star men: Rob Walker for Minch and Sandor Toth for Uley

Stroud & District Football League Division 6

Uley Reserves 4

Minchinhampton Reserves 8

Minchinhampton Reserves turned in arguably their performance of the season to take the spoils in a tale of two halves.

A bright start saw Minch take an early lead Sam Wickham scoring at the near post direct from a corner.

Uley however found parity when a corner was bundled in at the back post by Simon Timms.

This spurred a slumbering Uley into action and against the run of play found themselves in front as Jasper Stokes-Johnson rifled in from the spot after Martin Scrivens challenge in the box was penalised.

Uley furthered their lead late in the half when a free kick was headed in by Pete Jagger at the far post unchallenged.

Minch again started brightly and Sam Wickham made the perfect start scoring early to reinvigorate the visitors.

Their tails up and Wickham enjoying a purple patch made it 3-3 soon after great resilience from Adam Churchill and Matt Stinchcombe with the square ball into the box, to complete his hat-trick.

Not content with the match ball and after Churchill's pinpoint delivery found him in space duly headed his and Minchinhampton's fourth. Now on fire, Wickham danced on to a through ball and was brutally brought to the ground by the advancing keeper who was shown his marching orders.

Nick Matthews dispatching the penalty past the substitute keeper. Jasper Stokes-Johnson kept Uley in the tie with his second, taking advantage of a rare misjudgment by Martin Scrivens to hammer it past the keeper.

Minch not to be outdone scored a sixth when Matt Stinchcombe fired into the far corner after a magnificent ball by the mercurial Luke Halliday, a seventh followed with Ed Gosling nodding past the keeper from a another Halliday delivery and the icing in the cake saw Youvraj Saulick round-off a superb team performance stroking the ball into the bottom corner.

A fine performance with good games from Ash Hands and the returning Chris Atkinson worthy of mention but man of the match went to four- goal Sam Wickham.