Wick lose to Worthing in Senior Cup

Rebels will host Rye in the next round but Wick will be kicking themselves for losing after gifting a Rebels side clearly short on confidence both goals.

Worthing got off to a dream start when Wick’s defence allowed the ball to bounce on the edge of their own area, and then Ruben French’s weak header fell to his former colleague Gaskin, whose deft chip found Terry Dodd in space on the penalty spot and he drilled home with just six minutes on the clock.

There was a nervy moment for Rebels after 25 minutes when youth team keeper James Fernandes allowed the ball to squirm under him from a Rob Wimble shot, but to the relief of the visitors the ball trickled out for a corner.

Arguably the best move of the game came on 38 minutes with a quick break down the left from Dodd. His inch-perfect ball found strike partner Gaskin 12 yards out but the striker failed to hit the target against his former club.

Wick began the second half brightly but Rebels almost doubled their lead when Gaskin again fired wide after a good run down the left by Tom Lawley.

Wick should have levelled on 57 minutes when Andy Brown was played in but opted to square rather than shoot and no Wick player was able to get on the end of his cross.

Fernandes’ first-half nerves seemed to have disappeared as he produced a smart save to deny Wimble, and then a point-blank save from a Lee Bradshaw header.

Wick paid the price for not taking their chances when Gaskin finally found the target with 16 minutes remaining after Lawley slid him in.

Wick manager Gary Block said: “You’d never know that they were in a higher league than us. If we’d been at full strength, I reckon we’d have won the game. Their keeper pulled off a few good saves to be fair to him.”

WICK: Kason, Hotson, Bradshaw, Bonniface, Hunter; French, Baggura, Towers, A.Brown; Wimble, R.Brown. Subs: Urquhart (Hunter 66), Wrigley (Bradshaw 73), Peach (Baggura 81), Forster.