A LATE GOAL BY A TOM THUMB LOOKALIKE WON A HARDFOUGHT GAME FOR COLLEGIATE AS BRNESC THREW 3 POINTS AWAY AT ALDER RD .
BRNESC CONCEDE AFTER 5 MINS PLAY AT A UNSEASONABLY WARM ALDER RD ON A FLAT BUT ROCK HARD PITCH,IT WAS COLLEGIATE FIRST ATTACK BUT AS THE BALL BOUNCED AROUND ON THE EDGE OF THE BOX A COLLEGIATE FORWARD TOE POKED IT PAST THE UNSIGHTED MATTY NAGLE TO OPEN THE SCORING FOR COLLEGIATE.
CHRIS FAGAN THEN SHOT OVER THE BAR AS BRNESC RESPONDEDTO GOING A GOAL DOWN.JOE STEPHENS THEN PLAYED A SWEEPING CROSS FIELD PASS TO JOE PARLE WHO GATHERED IT AND HIT A FIERCE DRIVE OVER THE BAR
BRNESC HAD UPPED THE ANTE AND WERE NOW STARTING TO HAVE THE MOST OF THE PLAYAND IN THE 30 MINUTE CHRIS FAGAN SWEPT A FREEKICK ACROSS THE FACE OF GOAL ,IT ONLY NEEDED A TOUCH AND IT WAS A GOAL.AFTER THE INCREASED PRESSURE THEY FINALLY GOT THEIR REWARD WHEN JOE PARLE MADE A SURGING RUN DOWN THE RIGHT HULDING OF THE CLOSE ATTENTIONS OF TWO DEFENDERS AND RELEASED DANNY KEARNEY,ON AS SUB FOR ANDY WALSH,TO DRIBBLE ALONG THE BYELINE AND LAY THE BALL ACROSS THE SIX YARD BOX TO CHRIS FAGAN TO SWEEP INTO THE NET 1 1
THE SECOND HALF OPENED AT A BLISTERING PACE AND BRNESC HAD A LET OF WHEN FROM A CORNER IN THE 48 MINUTE A FLICKED HEADER NARROWLY WENT WIDE AT THE FAR POST.BRNESCSWEPT DOWN THE PITCH AND DANNY FORCED THE KEEPER TO PUSH A FEROCIOUS SHOT FOR A CORNER A MINUTE LATER THE KEEPER BEAT AWAY ANOTHER GOALBOUND EFFORT FROM DANNY.
BRNESC THEN ATTACKED DOWN THE RIGHT AND BASHER PLAYED IN DANNY WHO CROSSED FROM THE BYELINE TO WHIT WHO VOLLEYED OVER THE BAR .WHIT THEN SAW ANOTHER VOLLET PARRIOED BY THE KEEPER AS BRNESC WENT FOR THE JUGULAR
FROM A SUCCESSION OF CORNERS KEVIN WISHART FLICKED ON INTO THE SIX YARD BOXBUT THERE WAS NO PLKAYER ABLE TO GET THE FINAL TOUCH
JOE PARLE THEN OPENED UP THE COLLEGIATE DEFENCE AND CROSSED TO WHIT WHO FIRED NARROWLY WIDE.
THE TWO CENTRE BACKS CHRIS BELL AND PHIL OLIVER HAD FORMED A RESOLUTE PARTNERSHIP ALL GAME LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR BRNESC S ATTACKING PLAYAND PHIL OLIVER DISPLAY EARNED HIM MOM
JUST AS BRNESC LOOKED LIKE HAVING TO SETTLE FOR A OPOINT DASATER STRUCK A SILLY FREE KICK WAS GIVEN AWAY OM THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE BOX AND PLAYED IN THE BALL WAS HEADED ACROSS THE GOAL TO THE FAR POST WHERE A TOM THUMB SIZED PLAYER WIYH HIS FIRST MEANINGFUL TOUCH IN THE WHOLE GAME HEADED IN TO MAKE IT 2 1 TO COLLEGIATE.THE OLD FAILINGS CAME BACK TO HAUNT BRNESC INABILITY TO KILL OF OPPONENTS AND LAPSES OF CONCENTRATION AT THE END OF THE GAME.
BRNESC STRIVED TO GET SOMETHING FROM THE REMAINING 2 MINS OF THE GAME AND JOE PARLE SPED INTO THE BOX AROUND THE KEEPER BUT SCREWED HIS SHOT A GAINST THE POST ,A LITTLE MORE COMPOSURE WOULD SURELY HAVE BROUGHT THE DESERVED EQUALISERTHEN HE HAD ANOTHER EFFORT BLOCKED ON THE LINE.
THE RESULT WAS HARSH ON BRNESC THEY HAD CREATED THE BETTER CHANCES AFTER THE FIRST 15 MINS AND AT LEAST DESERVED A POINT BUT MUST BE MORE CLINICAL IN THEIR FINISHING AND SEE THE GAME OUT WHEN LEADING OR DRAWING.
