WBS League Cup: wins for Airbus, Rhyl 1879, Holywell, Newtown, Buckley and Ruthin

WELSH BLOOD SERVICE LEAGUE CUP NORTHERN ROUND ONE
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Airbus UK Broughton 3 Mold Alexandra 1

Holders Airbus began their defence of the trophy with a 3-1 comeback win over Mold at the Hollingsworth Group Stadium on Friday night.
Mold, 2024 winners of the competition, took the lead inside just eight minutes as Owen Cordiner found space on the edge of the area to clinically curl into the bottom corner.
However, the Wingmakers were level on 27 minutes as Mason Blackwell-Jones slotted home his first goal for the club before former Mold frontman Danny Warren completed the turnaround early in the second half with a close range finish from Jordan Evans’ cross.
In-form George Peers sealed victory late on, heading home Sam Baker’s cross at the back post for his eighth goal of the season in all competitions.

Caersws 2 Brickfield Rangers 0

Max McLaughlin fired home from a corner to give the Bluebirds the lead just before half-time, while after Brickfield substitute Kian Thomas had been shown a straight red card, Rhys Hesden sealed the win for Caersws on 79 minutes.

Guilsfield 5 Flint Mountain 0

Adam Knott and Sam Flory both scored twice and Iwan Matthews also found the net in a comfortable 5-0 thrashing of Flint Mountain at Clos Mytton.

Holyhead Hotspur 1 Buckley Town 2

Buckley ended their run of three consecutive first round exits in the League Cup with a 2-1 victory at the New Stadium.
Hugh Holland met Max Moore’s cross at the back post to fire Buckley ahead on 22 minutes, but Holyhead equalised just two minutes later through Craig Whelan, an early substitute for the injured Tomos Owen.
However, Harvey Ellis, making his first start for the Bucks, produced a sublime effort from outside the area to restore his side’s advantage just before half-time, which proved to be the decisive goal as the visitors progressed.

Llandudno 1 Newtown 1 (Newtown won 6-5 on pens)

Newtown progressed to the second round thanks to a penalty shootout win over Llandudno at the Go Goodwins Stadium.
Both sides are unbeaten so far in the JD Cymru North, and nothing could separate them as Fin Starkey-Jones’ opener for the Robins late in the first half was cancelled out after the break by Mark Cadwallader.
Teenager Aidan McCann missed Newtown’s first attempt in the shootout, but after both teams had scored twice, Ben Maher’s miss for Llandudno levelled it up. Ollie Sharp converted for Newtown, before Adam Stephens’ miss put the Robins on the brink of victory but Tomos Jones saw his effort saved by Michael Jones.
Anthony Stephens scored to send it to sudden death and after two more converted kicks for both sides, Robbie Evans netted for Newtown and Llandudno’s Iwan Cartwright missed to see the visitors prevail.

Penrhyncoch 0 Holywell Town 2

Mark Connolly marked his first appearance in nearly six years by providing two decisive assists in Holywell Town’s 2-0 win over Penrhyncoch at Cae Baker.
Former Welsh Premier star Connolly, 41, came on as a substitute in the 69th minute and made an impact six minutes later as his low cross was steered home by Jamie Breese.
The duo combined again just five minutes later as Breese latched onto Connolly’s threaded pass and slotted past the outrushing Steffan Jones.

CPD Y Rhyl 1879 1 Denbigh Town 1 (Rhyl 1879 won 5-4 on pens)

Revenge for Rhyl 1879 as they reversed a penalties defeat to Denbigh Town in the Nathaniel MG Cup earlier this season by defeating the same opponents via spot-kicks at the Hops and Barley Community Stadium on Saturday.
Rhyl broke the deadlock just after the half hour mark thanks to Ben Lightfoot’s neat footwork and calm finish, but Nathan Brown brought Denbigh level from the penalty spot in first half stoppage time after Archie Jones’ foul on Ben Lockley inside the box.
It went to pens again and this time new 1879 keeper Alex Swindell saved Scott McHarrie’s third attempt for Denbigh, which proved to be the only miss of the whole shootout as James Farr scored the winner for the hosts.

Ruthin Town 1 Gresford Athletic 1 (Ruthin won 4-3 on pens)

10-man Ruthin Town triumphed on penalties following a 1-1 draw with Gresford Athletic at Memorial Playing Fields on Friday night.
The hosts played over an hour with 10 men after Harry Martin’s red card in the 26th minute, while they also found themselves a goal down on the half hour mark as Jake Roberts headed home Haci Ozlu’s cross. However, Josh Evans produced a superb solo goal on 73 minutes to level the contest and ultimately send it to penalties.
With the shootout sitting at 3-3 after four penalties each, Ruthin goalkeeper Dan Goldston saved Iwan Roberts’ effort to allow Matthew Robinson to step up and fire the hosts into the second round.