Halwill 3-4 Okehampton Argyle |
| Venue: Halwill Junction |
Halwill opened the scoring within five minutes when ex Argyle striker Andy Winser latched on to a free kick
and calmly slotted the ball wide of Malcolm in goal. Okehampton responded on 15 minutes when a long ball found
Robbie Miller, who headed to the feet of Steve Kinsey to level the score from 12 yards. On 22 minutes
James Williams played a superb ball out of his own half to Kinsey. He turned his marker well and lobbed
the keeper for his and Okehampton's second. At this stage it was all Argyle and on 25 minutes Robbie Sandercock
lobbed the keeper to increase Argyle's lead.
Halwill keeper Phil Wannacott pulled off some superb saves
to deny Miller and Kinsey. This seemed to inspire Halwill and they leveled when again Winser hammered in a powerful shot
shot that Malcolm could only palm away - this allowed the striker to hammer in the equalizer. Okehampton
regained the lead when Philip Evans found himself with some time and space 30 yards out. He hit a screamer
of a shot that ended up on the top corner of the Halwill net, Argyle were unlucky not to add a fifth when
a good move involving several players ended with a Mark Burdus shot coming off the cross bar.
The second
half failed to produce and goals but the action flowed from end to end and both keepers were kept busy.
Okehampton had James Williams carried off with a knee injury and had to rearrange their defence, bringing
on Neil Agnew. Okehampton played the last ten minutes with ten men after Matt Mortimer was shown a red card
for a dangerous challenge.