Goring CC win at home to Southwick

Goring started strongly and soon took control. In the 8th minute a fine Todor Bankov pass to Alex Staines resulted in a neat one-two with Hayden Briggs which saw Staines open the scoring.

Goring pressure continued and in the 15th minute a Luke Tate run ended with his shot from the edge of the area going narrowly wide.

Tate went on another fine run a minute later and a superb pass found Jordan Jones, who sent an unstoppable shot past the Southwick goalkeeper for a 2-0 lead.

Goring kept pushing and MoM Dave Wilcox saw his superb shot from the edge of the box hit the post. The half ended with another fine effort from Wilcox which produced an excellent save from Southwick keeper Daniel Dengi.

Southwick pulled a goal back on 55 minutes through an unfortunate ricochet off Bankov. Continued dominance by Goring saw a towering header by Wilcox cannon off the crossbar from a 65th minute corner by Rio Imbimbo.

And it was no surprise when a Briggs cross on 80 minutes was met by Connor Pomeroy to make it 3-1 to the home side.

Five minutes later, Imbimbo set up Pomeroy for his second goal and on 90 mintes a fine Kieran Clark cross was met by Pomeroy and it was only the post that prevented his hat-trick.

Goring deservedly go through to the quarter-finals.

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It finished Stedham Reserves 6, Yapton Reserves 5 in Yapton seconds’ first game of the new year.

Frazer Beaumont scored two goals and was Yapton's man of the match - albeit in a losing cause - yet he will have few fond memories of the match.

On the stroke of full-time Yapton were awarded a penalty and Beaumont blazed the kick over the bar.

It was Beaumont who opened the scoring on five minutes and Stedham equalised with a penalty and then took the lead. Luke Howard made it 2-2 direct from a corner by half-time.

After the break, Beaumont, Eddie Manwill and Frankie Walsh were on target for Yapton, but Stedham outgunned their opponents with four more before the late penalty drama.

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Worthing Women won 4-1 at Portishead in Division 1SW of the National League.

Tierney Scott, Lauren Amerena, Georgia Tibble and Rebecca Bell got the goals – the final three coming in a seven-minute spell early in the second half.

The victory leaves Worthing sixth in the table at the halfway point of their league campaign.