Broadwell Amateurs kept up their great run of form in the County League with a 4-0 win over Southmead CS Athletic.

All four goals were scored in the first 45 minutes, with Greg Lewis giving the home side the lead on 12 minutes, turning in a rebound after Paul Manns’ free-kick had hit the bar.

It was two eight minutes later. Manns sent a superb ball out wide to Jordi Sheen and his cross found the unmarked Harry Williams to finish it off.

Liam Thomas then made it three with a low drive, and a one-two between Harry Williams and Sheen saw Williams drive home his second.

Broadwell remain in third place, 10 points behind leaders Thornbury Town, but with three games in hand.


Fourth-placed Stonehouse Town, meanwhile, were held to a 1-1 draw by Kingswood.

Kingswood stunned the home side in the very first minute when a Nathan Croot free-kick from the left found Ady Howarth, who headed the ball back across goal, clipping the post on its way into the net.

The home side got going after that early shock, and should have levelled on 11 minutes when Luke Soule was clear on goal, but keeper Chris Fox saved well.

On 20 minutes, great build-up play gave Liam Wright the chance to slip the ball past Fox, but he had strayed offside.

On 35 minutes the home side got the goal that they had been pushing for, when a long ball down the right was pushed into Liam Wright’s path and he squeezed the ball past Fox.

Just before the break Fox brought off another good save, this time to deny Will Hayward.

Fox denied Liam Wright again at the start of the second half, diving to his right to save, and it was becoming the Chris Fox show as he denied Wright again.

Lee Keveren also had a header that just went over the top on a day of frustration for Stonehouse.

Frampton United had a day to forget as they were thumped 7-0 by second-placed Lebeq United, while Thornbury had to play their home fixture with Gala Wilton at Tytherington Rocks’ ground, because of upgrade work taking place at the Mundy Playing Fields in readiness for the next level of the pyramid.

And Thornbury began well against Gala, with Craig Lancastle tapping home Toby Bennett’s cross from the right in the opening 10 minutes.

They went 2-0 up on 48 minutes when Scott McLeod’s cross to the far post was headed back by Lancastle, and Brandon Benjamin lunged forward to knock the ball in.

Gala hit back in the 57th minute after a corner from the right that was met by the powerful Ash Samuels to head home.

And it was close for the next 20 minutes or so until a low cross into the Gala box fell to Asher Budd on the edge of the box, who drove a low shot into the net to leave a final score of 3-1.


Ruardean Hill Rangers, meanwhile, missed out on a place in the GFA Challenge Trophy final, when they were beaten 1-0 at home by Brimscombe and Thrupp, of the Hellenic League.

Ruardean started well and Luke Johnson saw a shot cleared off the line after a good flick from Shaun Tingle.

Brimscombe’s Ben Deakin then shot wide from 15 yards before home keeper Arran Underwood pulled off a great save from a free-kick.

Karl Nash headed over for the visitors before Ben Deakin had two chances in quick succession, first poking wide and then seeing Underwood deny him with another great save.

John Evans fired well over in the second half before the visitors finally went ahead through an Ashley Caldwell penalty.

Ruardean rallied and Luke Brown went very close with a 25-yard free-kick, while Ricky Tingle saw his header slam against the crossbar.

However, their hopes of snatching an equaliser were dealt a serious blow when Dan Mason saw red late on for a bad tackle.

County League, other scores: Hanham Ath 2 AEK Boco 3; Little Stoke 4 Patchway T 2; Wick 3 Henbury 1.