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ARDAL NORTHERN WEEKEND FIXTURES – SATURDAY, NOV 2

ARDAL NORTH EAST (2 pm)

Builth Wells v Llangollen Town
Cefn Albion v Llanfair United
Chirk AAA v Rhos Aelwyd
Dolgellau Athletic v Llansantffraid
Kerry v Llandrindod Wells
Radnor Valley v Penycae

ARDAL NORTH WEST (2 pm)

CPD Y Rhyl 1879 v Llangefni Town
NFA v Menai Bridge Tigers
Porthmadog v Conwy Borough
St Asaph City v Corwen

RESULT – FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Holyhead Hotspur 5 CPD Y Felinheli 2

MATCH REPORTS – OCTOBER 26

ARDAL NORTH WEST

Connah’s Quay Town 3 NFA FC 2

What a turnaround!
After Connah’s Quay Town regular goalkeeper Dan Cooper was injured in the warm-up, 44-year-old assistant-manager Steve Hopkins bravely agreed to take the gloves.
By half time, Quay were 2-0 down to fellow high-flyers NFA and staring down the barrel.
However, enter Welsh Premier League legend Jamie Reed to score twice and bring the game level before the in-form Pascal Gomez completed the turnabout with an amazing winner.
Anyone who may have questioned Town’s ability to remain in the Ardal North West leading pack were well and truly answered at Deeside Stadium.
Visitors NFA, themselves so impressive to date in their debut Tier 3 season, took a 16th minute lead through Cammron Morris before sub James Lloyd made it 2-0 close to the interval.
Seven minutes into the second half, Reed halved the deficit and soon added another to make it all-square.
Quay were rampant now and Gomez’s sixth goal in four games and 10th of the season on 65 minutes ended up the decider.

Corwen 4 Trearddur Bay 3

Debutant Calyn Spencer made himself an instant hero with the Corwen fans after bagging the winner against Trearddur Bay in the seventh minute of added time.
The home side were 3-2 down at the 90-minute mark only for two stoppage time strikes to turn things Adam Galdo’s team’s way.
This battle of Tier 3 promoted clubs saw Corwen take a ninth-minute lead when great work from Meirion Williams allowed Tom Williams to be played in. Williams cut through the Bay defence before slotting the ball into the far bottom corner of the net.
The away side looked for a leveller, and went agonisingly close in the 15th minute when a shot bounced on the Corwen goal-line before being cleared.
Toby Jones went close before a 25th minute corner was collected by Dion Donohue, who whipped the ball back into the Corwen box, where a bullet header from Tom Taylor levelled the scores.
In the fifth minute of stoppage time, Toby Jones played the ball across to Stevie Jones, who lashed into the back of the Corwen net with the last kick of the half to make it 2-1 to the islanders.
The Anglesey side went 3-1 up in the 73rd minute when recent signing and substitute Shaun Cavanagh ran down the wing with the ball before cutting inside and going beyond a Corwen defender, then blasting into the far corner of the net.
Corwen wasted no time in getting a foothold back into the game, as within two minutes Scott Evans powered home a shot from distance.
Four minutes past the 90, it was 3-3 when Tom Mann crossed and Oliver Crimp was on hand to head home.
The late leveller did not deflate the visitors, who went in search of a winner; however Tyler French produced a brilliant low save to deny Cavanagh from close range.
French then launched the ball forward to Mann, who released Spencer to slot in the decider,

Holyhead Hotspur 2 St Asaph City 0

Tomos Owen and Cory Williams netted the second half goals which clinched maximum spoils for Hotspur.

Llannefydd 1 Pwllheli 2

Carl Jones’ first game as Pwllheli manager was a winning one.
Ashley Ainsworth nudged the visitors ahead a minute into the second half, Mathew Jones equalised with 89 on the clock, but with 92 gone, Steffan Toplis plundered the winner.

Llanrwst United 3 Y Felinheli 2

Two late replies from Felinheli had Llanrwst hanging on for victory, but the hosts did manage to get the win they desired.
Callum Parry, Chris Nicolson and Math Hughes made it 3-0 to the Rwsters with 70 minutes gone, but Gruff John and Elis Williams hit back on 88 and 89 to run Felin close.

Menai Bridge Tigers 1 Conwy Borough 2

Goals from Charles Lloyd and Macsen Rhys-Williams won the day for Borough and left Menai Bridge still without a point.
Kurt Hellfeld replied for the Anglesey hosts before half time, but all the second period delivered was a red card for each team. In the 47th minute, Leon Owens was dismissed for the hosts and James Etherington walked for the visitors.

Nantlle Vale 0 Llangefni Town 2

An uplifting win on the road for Cefni thanks to first-half net-finders from Ifan Mansoor and Josh Stanley-Williams (penalty).
In the second half two red cards were shown – Nantlle’s Math Jones and Cefni’s Jamie Thomas both sent off on 90 minutes.

Porthmadog 2 CPD Y Rhyl 1879 1

Gareth Thomas’ final game in charge of Rhyl ended in a disappointing, yet spirited defeat.
Dylan Proctor gave the Lilywhites a third-minute lead, but Danny Brookwell levelled on 43.
Rhyl did plenty of pressing in the second half, but nine minutes from time were caught on a break, Brookwell with a smart run and finish after good work from John Littlemore.

ARDAL NORTH EAST

Builth Wells 2 Bow Street 0

Two goals in the first 10 minutes supplied by Joseph Wozencraft and Tommy Rowlands were enough for Builth to beat the leaders, who had Archie Bales red-carded early in the second period.

Cefn Albion 1 Llangollen Town 1

Ben Realey fifth-minute goal gave Llangollen an early lead, but Tom Smith equalised before the interval.
And that was the end of the scoring, Smith missing a penalty on 77 minutes.

Chirk AAA 0 Dolgellau Athletic 2

Dolgellau had to battle hard to take the spoils at Holyhead Road, Paul Lewis handing them a 17th minute lead before Osian Morris settled it with 91 on the clock.

Llandrindod Wells 2 Kerry 1

Kerry missed a chance to go top after crashing at The Broadway.
Shaun Nicholls struck first for Llandrindod on 39 minutes before Luke Mumford made it even again in first half stoppage time.
Nicholls bagged the Wells winner after 81,

Llanidloes Town 0 Llansantffraid Village 1

A run of five league defeats ended for Llansantffraid when Thomas Williams pocketed an 88th minute decider at KVM Park.

Llanuwchllyn 4 Brickfield Rangers 0

Cup heroes Llanuwchllyn maintained their 100 percent record for October with a resounding win over their Wrexham visitors.
Meilir Williams struck twice to bring his season’s goals tally to 23, while Dan Dascalu and Sam Evans were also on the mark for Sion Tudor’s side.

Penycae 2 Radnor Valley 2

Zac Davies and Thomas Edwards were on target for the hosts, but Radnor took home a poiint after replies via Joe Price and Thomas Edwards.

Rhos Aelwyd 1 Llanfair United 1

Tomos Jones salvaged a point for Llanfair with an equaliser three minutes into added time.
Rhos had led since the 40th minute through Ryan Jenkins.