Football:Scottish show Saints no mercy

Football:Scottish show Saints no mercy

There was also a brace for Ged McConnell and singles for Craig Ferey, Charlie Smith and James Scott as Scottish won their Le Riches Cup preliminary round match at Les Quennevais.

The margin of victory would have been higher still if not for some heroic saves and tackles from the St John rearguard.Scottish’s 9-0 feat was matched in the same competition by Grouville who romped past Sporting Club in the all-Division II affair in the same competition.Luc Le Mière and Richard Stevens led the way with hat-tricks, junior Richard Russell notched a double and Kenyan James Mokama a single.Division I Rozel Rovers also won through to the first round following a 3-1 win against Division II Jersey Nomads.

At Le Couvent there were goals for Dougie Ross, James Reid and Tony Zonfrillo for the hosts and Mark Herridge for the visitors.Two goals by Alun Thorne and one from Julian Cornick helped St Martin to a 3-1 win, their first of the season, at home to St Lawrence in Division II.Substitute Dominic Zonta bagged a late consolation for the visitors who missed two excellent chances to score in the opening few minutes of the second half.Four teams are level on six points after three games each played in Division I Reserves, St Paul’s, Trinity, Grouville and promoted St John respectively.St Paul’s 2-0 win at St Clement was marred by a sending off after the final whistle to the visitors’ Stephen Jones.

It is alleged another St Paul’s player, not playing in the match, threw the ball into a St Clement player’s face and a mêlée followed.Jones had earlier scored for St Paul’s together with Brendan Flood.Anthony Cotgrave scored four goals in Trinity’s 8-2 home win against Jersey Scottish.

There were also singles for Chris Richards, Graham White, Peter Edwards and Nathan Bertram for the winners with Scottish replying through Adie Tredant and Ged O’Donoghue.Grouville slipped from top place after they slumped to a 5-1 defeat away to promoted St Brelade.

It was an excellent win for the Westerners who were on target through Danny Richardson (two), Ashley Lewis, Darren Mollet and Olly Nightingale.

Darren Quintal bagged Grouville’s consolation.Juniors scored all of First Tower’s goals in a 6-1 success over St Peter at La Hague Manor.

St Peter’s only goal came from Jersey Under-18 team manager Jon Welsh while Ben Ahier (three), Peter Vincenti (two) and Bradley Russell hit the target for the hosts, who could move a point clear at the top of the division if they win their match in hand against Wanderers.There were three own goals scored at the Hockey Club where St John won 6-3 – after being 3-0 down – against Jersey Wanderers.

Those who scored in the right net were Robbie Searle and Jason Byrne for Wanderers and Dean Hughes, Ian Daly and Tony Hoyland for St John.Magpies and Portuguese Club are the only teams in Division II Reserves with a 100 per cent record from two games.Two goals from Ian Crocker and singles by Mark Le Marinel, Jason Newman and Matt Pamplin earned a 5-1 win for Magpies against St Lawrence at Les Quennevais.

The parish side’s goal was scored by Dominic Zonta.Portuguese edged out Sporting Club 3-2 at the Airport where Ricardo Vieira (two) and De Freitas netted for the winners and Danny Kennedy and Danny Harris for the losers.Don Rosie and Ben Doherty shot Beeches into a two-goal lead inside ten minutes at the FB Fields only for Rozel Rovers to hit back through Jeremy Field and Chris Swanton to earn a 2-2 draw.Phil Faulkner hit his second hat-trick in two weeks.

Last week it was for St Ouen C team; this week it was for the Reserves who beat St Martin 6-2 at St Ouen.Gil Campbell, Dave Evans and Dave Wright were also on the mark for the winners and Anton Daly and Gary Singh for the losers.Jersey Wanderers, from a game played more, moved three points clear at the top of the C Division after returning 5-1 winners from St John.Jon Chapman, again, notched a hat-trick and Dave Davies and John Searle singles for Wanderers.

Mike Fortun replied.Le Riches Cup, preliminary round: Grouville 9, Sporting Club 0; Jersey Scottish 9, St John 0; Rozel Rovers 3, Jersey Nomads 1.Flybe.

Combination Div I: Jersey Wanderers 2, First Tower 2; St Paul’s 5, St Peter 1.

Div II: St Martin 3, St Lawrence 1.

Div I Res: First Tower 6, St Peter 1; Jersey Wanderers 3, St John 6; St Brelade 5, Grouville 1; St Clement 0, St Paul’s 2; Trinity 8, Jersey Scottish 2.

Div II Res: Beeches Old Boys 2, Rozel Rovers 2; Magpies 5, St Lawrence 1; Sporting Club 2, Portuguese Club 3; St Ouen 6, St Martin 2.

C Division: St John 1, Jersey Wanderers 5.Lloyds TSB Junior League, U18 Div I: Jersey Wanderers 0, St Paul’s 12; Rozel Rovers 0, First Tower 1.

Div II: Sporting Academics 3, St Brelade 1; St Clement 8, SCF 1; Trinity 5, St John 2.U14 Div I: First Tower 0, Jersey Scottish 3; St Paul’s 3, Jersey Wanderers 2.

U14 Div II: Rozel Rovers 0, Sporting Academics 13; St Brelade 8, St Clement 1; St Ouen 2, St Peter 0.U12 Blue Grp: Jersey Scottish 0, St Paul’s B 0; Jersey Wanderers B 4, St Peter A 1.Ladies Zenith Trust Cup Grp A: St Brelade 0, St Clement 5; St John 2, Jersey Wanderers 1.

Grp B: St Peter 4, First Tower 0; S; Grouville 0, Rozel Rovers 13.

(St John win Group A and meet St Peter, winners of Group B, in the final).

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