West Lancs Football - Ambleside out to prove point (From The Westmorland Gazette)

West Lancs Football - Ambleside out to prove point

1:20pm Thursday 21st April 2011 in Sport

Furness Cav 1,Ambleside 4.

AMBLESIDE are confident of a third-place finish for their debut season in the West Lancashire League and will be out to prove a point when they meet league leaderrs Lytham Town on Saturday.

Ambleside boss Steve Edmondson “We haven’t played them with a full-strength side this season yet, but we have everbody we want available, so there will be no excuses.”

A 25-yard setpiece free kick from Jamie Hastings which he curled aroudn the wall into the bottom corner opened Ambleside’s account against Cavs from the bottom half of the table.

When Zach Clark was brought down, Hastings thne added a second from the penalty spot.

Clark scored the third in the second half when he tucked away Mike Barron's through ball, but Cavs pulled one back after a rare mistake in defence by Dan Fox.

Ambleside cancelled it out when manager Steve Edmondson - on as substitute - did good work on the right to release Barron, whose 20-yard shot was saved but not held by the keeper, allowing Clark to snap up a tap-in.

“We have kept going when it would have been easy to have faded away,” said Edmondson.

“There’s plenty to build on for next season.”

Ambleside finish the season against Milnthorpe Corinthians on May 5.

Kendal County 4, Askam United 4.

IT was the same old story for Kendal County who went ahead only to find themselves 4-1 down 15 minutes into the second half and on a retrieval mission which ended in a point.

There was a first County senior-team goal for Rory Neale when he tucked away Aiden Caswell’s cross but Aksam were back on level terms at half time when Mike Packham was adjudged to have fouled an Askam forward and they scored from the spot.

An adventurous start to the second half from the visitors sprang them into a 4-1 lead as County’s usually solidd defence was reduced to a shambles.

County reshuffled and laid seige to the Askam goal with Packham rattlign the bar from 30 yards before Kevin Pickering scored at the second attempt.

Oliver Wilson made it 4-3 and he added a penalty to restore parity when Nic Hayton was brought down in the box.

More opportunities followed to win, but a mixture of bad luck and poor finishing saw the game ended with honours even.

County boss Dave Chambers said: “We’ve developed an uncanny knack of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory lately.

“We all need to stand up and take responsibility for our performances of late as they are nowhere near the standard required.”