Following on from last weeks weather impacted schedule, the Cheshire League resumed in full with six games going ahead in Division Two.
League leaders St Helens Town continued their impressive start to the 2024/25 season with a 3-2 win away from home against Lymm Rovers. Charlie Simpson, Charlie Leech and Liam Diggle all stuck in the first half for St Helens to put them 3-1 ahead at half time. Lymm pulled goals back via Conor Keating and Harry Quarmby but despite the improved showing second half came away from St Helens without any points. St Helens maintain their unbeaten league record with their sixth league win a row. Lymm Rovers slip to 8th with their third defeat in a row.
Second placed Mersey Valley overcame a tough away challenge from Wigan Town to return from Ince Rose Bridge with a 4-1 win and three valuable points.
Goals from Aaron Johnson, Owen Adams and two from Sam Deering secured the points to keep Valley second in the table hot on the heels of the leaders. Wigan remain third after suffering only their first league defeat since August.
Haydock leapt up to 5th place in the table with a comfortable 3-0 victory again Halton Farnworth. Two goals from league top scorer Lewis Perrin set them on their way and a third from Kyle Moorhouse wrapped up the points. Four league games unbeaten now for Haydock who will feel emboldened by recent results to gatecrash the promotion spots at the end of the season. Halton Farnworth dropped a position and now sit in eighth place.
A resurgent Hartford made hard work of their afternoon, but held their nerve to edge out Maine Road Reserves 2-1. Jack Turner grabbed his sixth league goal of the campaign for Maine Road but it wasn’t enough for them to secure a point and remain down in eleventh place. Hartford stay sixth but with games in hand on three of the five sides above them.
In the battle at the bottom, Warrington Rylands Development picked up just their second win of the season to haul themselves off the bottom of the league table. Replacing them at the bottom are Moore United who couldn’t contain free scoring Reuben McHugh who hit two goals (his 12th and 13th of the season) in a 2-1 win for Ryalnds. Despite slipping to the foot of the table, Moore United have played substantially fewer games than the rest of the league.
Sandbach United suffered their seventh league defeat in a row at the hands of Newton Le Willows. Two late goals from Lukasz Synowicz proved to be consolations as Newton scored four to win 4-2 and pick up their third league win in three games to keep in touch with the leading sides and will hope to join the leaders later in the season from their current position of seventh.
Elsewhere in the league, fourth placed Stretford Paddock were in Manchester Country Cup action but were eliminated by a solitary goal against Manchester League side Irlam Steel Rangers. A first half penalty was enough for Irlam to take their place in the semi final.
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