Men’s National League Round Up

October got off to a flying start in National League with a total of 28 goals being scored across all games.

Bromac Kelburne finished their build-up for the EuroLeague next weekend with a comfortable 4-0 mauling of Western Wildcats.

The scoreline does not really reflect the extent of Kelburne`s dominance of proceedings and the only issue for coach Gordon Shepherd is that his charges failed convert that into more goals.    However, a string of saves by Wildcats` goalkeeper Gavin Sommerville contributed to the Scottish champions frustration in front of goal.

German Jonas Nommensen and youngster Jack McKenzie created the early chances for the Paisley side.    The opener was only delayed a few minutes, Ben Peterson found the net with a low shot at a set piece.

Kelburne did all the running thereafter in the first half and further chances fell to Finn Halliday, Peterson, Lee Morton and finally Nommensen, but still no additions to the tally.

The second half was a carbon copy of the first but it took the champions 16 minutes to double their total, Morton waltzed his way past three Wildcats` defenders along the bye-line and his cross was forced home by New Zealander Nick Finlayson.

The third came when a Peterson shot was illegally stopped on the line by a Wildcats` defender and the same player sent Sommerville the wrong way from the spot.

With only two minutes left a Peterson cross caused chaos in the Wildcats` circle, the ball went into the air and Morton batted it into the net from close range for the fourth.

Grange`s tricky away fixture at Grove Menzieshill looked dead and buried when they found themselves three down with ten minutes left, but a spirited comeback by the Edinburgh side produced three goals and a final share of the points.

In only four minutes a Grange attack broke down and at the resulting breakaway Menzieshill`s Paul Martin finished off the move with a shot into the roof of the net from the top of the circle.

Ten minutes later Ben Cosgrove latched on to a rebound off the Grange goalkeeper and fired a low shot into the net for the second.

To complete Grange`s misery and seal Menzieshill`s dominance Martin scored his own second for a comfortable 3-0 lead just before the interval.

The Taysiders were the architects of their own demise by allowing Grange back into proceedings, with ten minutes left Steven McIlravey made a brilliant double save but Andrew Brogdon sent the rebound into the net off the right hand post.

Five minutes to go Duncan Riddell fired a reverse stick shot into the net from the top of the circle to pull the score back to 3-2.

Menzieshill tried to hold on to their lead by holding the ball in their own defence area, the move backfired as Todd Mills was able to pass it on to Frank Ryan and the Irishman found the net to level the contest.

Newly promoted Watsonians have made a spectacular start to their return to the top flight and join champions Kelburne at the top of the table after an impressive 6-2 win over PSL Clydesdale.   It was close for most of the game, 1-1 at half-time and 2-2 with 15 minutes left but the Edinburgh side put their foot on the accelerated and added four goals to their tally.

There were six different scorers in their strike force –  Craig McCrossan, Fraser Sands, Danny Prentice, Jack Kinloch, Tom Swarbrick and Scott Sutherland.

Edinburgh University marched to the top of the first division on goal difference with an 8-2 thumping of Gordonians at Peffermill – the students have now scored 13 goals in two games so far.

The catalyst in Edinburgh`s triumph was Ian Moodie with four, set piece expert Dan Coultas notched a hat-trick while Antonis Efthymiou was also on target.

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