BRNESC GAINED THEIR FIRST VICTORY OF THE SEASON WITH A 4 3 VICTORY OVER COPPERAS HILL AT MELLING RD COMING BACK FROM 2 0 AND 3 1 TO DESERVELY TAKE THE THREE POINTS
BRNESC STARTED BRIGHTLY AND TOOK THE GAME TO THEIR OPPONENTS FROM THE OFF.SHOWING NO SIGNS OF NERVES FOLLOWING THEIR SHOCK 5 1 DEFEAT TO STONEYCROFT,PLAY WAS END TO END AS C HILL ALSO STARTED STRONGLY WITH A VIEW TO CASHING IN ON ANY HANGOVER FROM SATURDAYS DEFEAT ATER 10 MINS JOE ASP CHASED A LONG BALL AND VOLLEYED OVER THE ADVANCING KEEPER ONLY FOR THE SHOT TO HIT THE TOP OF THE BAR /RITCHIE CAMPBELL THEN HEADED WIDE A MINUTE
AFTER 15 MINS MATTY NAGLE LET A BACK PASS FROM SAM GARBETT ROLL UNDER HIS FOOT AND INTO THE BACK OF THE NET 1 0 TO C HILL BRNESC WEREV STUNNED AFTER HAVING THE BETTER OF THE PLAYWORSE WAS TO FOLLOW WHEN IN THE 30 MIN MATTY NAGLE SAVED A POINT BLANK HEADER FROM C HILL NUMBER BUT COULDNT PREVENT THE FOLLOW UP BEING CONVERTED 2 0 TO C HILL
BRNESC TO THEIR CREDIT RESPONDED WELL AND CONTINUEDC TO PRESS ANS IN THE 35 MINUTE THEY WERE AWARDED A PENALTY WHEN FROM A LONG DIAGONAL CROSS FROM JOE ASP DAVID WHITNEYS CROSS SHOT WAS HANDLED BY THE DEFENDER TO PREVENT IT REACHING THE WAITING BRNESC FORWARDS .DAVID WHITNEY CONVERTED WITH APLOMB 2 1 COPPERAS HILL
DANNY DILLON THEN BEAT TWO DEFENDERS TO THE BALL AND ROUNDED THE KEEPER FACED WITH A DEFENDER ON THE LINE HE PASSED TO DAVE WHIT WHO WAS TACKLED JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO TAP THE BALL IN .A LONG PUNT DOWN THE MIDDLE FROM THE C HILL LEFT BACK WAS ALLOWED TO BOUNCE IN THE BOX AND THE C HILL FORWARD OUT JUMPED MATTY NAGLE TO MAKE IT 3 1 TO C HILL AT HALF TIME .BRNESC WERE STUNNED AFTER HAVING MOST OF THE GAME.
BRNESC STRUCK BACK WITHIN 3 MINS OF THE START OF THE SECOND HALF WHEN PETER QUINTONS CROSS FROM DOWN THE LEFT WAS HEADED AGAINST THE POST BY RITCHIE CAMPBELL WHO RAMMED THE REBOUND INTO THE BACK OF THE NET TO M AKE IT 3 2 .BRNESC WERE NOW IN FULL CRY AS THEY TORE INTO COPPERAS HILL AND DAVE WHIT VOLLEYED JUST WIDE FROM RITCHIE CAMPBELLS PASS
DAVID WHITNEY WAS CAUSING HAVOC WITH HIS STRONG RUNNING WITH THE BALL AND THE INCREASINGLEY RATTLED COPPERAS HILL REARGUARD WERE RESORTING TO CYNICAL CHALLENGES TO STOP HIM.FROM ONE SUCH CHALLENGE BRNESC SHOULD HAVE HAD A SECOND PEN BUT THE REF AMAZINGLY WAVED PLAY ON,BRNESC WERE STRONG ALL OVER THE PARK THE DEFENCE NULLIFYING THE THREAT FROM THE BIG NUMBER 9 AND THE MIDFIELD DOMINANT.IN THE 75 MIN BRNESC MADE IT 3 3 WHEN ANOTHER FINE BALL DOWN THE LEFT,FROM PETER QUINTON WAS COLLECTED BY SUB MICK KINNEY WHO DROVE INTO THE BOX AND SWEPT THE BALL FROM THE BYLINE ACROSS THE 6 YARD BOX WHERE DAVUD WHITNEY AT FULL PELT RAMMED THE BALL INTO THE NET 3 3
WITH 5 MINS TO GO BRNESC GOT THE DESERVED WIN WHEN JOE STEPHENS PASSED TO PABLO WHO RAN 45 YDS WITH THE BALL PURSUED BY DESPAIRING DEFENDERS HE KEPT HIS NERVE AND CALMLY SLOTTED THE BALL INTO THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER TO COMPLETE A REMARKABLE COMEBACK A FINE TEAM PERFORMANCE WAS THE KEY TO THIS VICTORY BUT DAVID WHITNEYS DISPLAY EARNED HIM MOM HIS RUNNING AND DASH UNNERVED THE HILL REARGUARD ALL GAME AND LAID THE BASIS FOR THE COMEBACK
