Town pay for poor finishing
Raymond Beach and Nakhi Wells both missed penalties as Dandy Town crashed out of the Friendship Trophy last night.
The pair took their miserable shooting form from the 90 minutes of normal time, and 30-minutes of extra time into the penalty shoot-out where they failed to score from 12-yards, something that was a theme for the Hornets' night.
A ninth minute strike aside, Beach missed more chances against Southampton Rangers last night than he has had all season.
He headed over, shot wide, mis-kicked and generally had a poor time of things at Somerset Cricket Club.
Not that Rangers were mucn better, they too had plenty of chances to win.
Once defender Jahmel Hill had equalised following a scramble in the goal-mouth, striker Rohaan Simmons had more than enough opportunities to spare his side the agonies of a shoot-out.
He missed two alone in the final minute of normal time when he first shot straight at Town goalkeeper Mikkail Crockwell, and then headed a corner against the cross bar from only six yards out.
By that time the game should have been over, with Beach and fellow strikers Wells and Heys Wolfe all squandering chances.
And both teams might have won it in extra time, with Omari Hart's 20-yard strike the closest Rangers came to breaking the deadlock.
In the end it came down to penalties. and Wells dragged his side's first effort wide, continuing the theme of their evening. And despite Crockwell saving Thomas Brown's effort Rangers eventually progressed.
In last night's First Division Shield encounter at Somerset, Ricky Saltus grabbed a hat-trick as X'Roads battered MR Onions 4-1.
The Warriors striker, who had a hand in all four goals, began the rout when his 11th minute cross was dropped into his own net by goalkeeper Adam Hopkin.
If the first was an own-goal then there was no doubt about the second nine minutes later when Saltus rifled a shot past Hopkin from 18-yards.
He added a third before half time as the non-existent Onions defence, which was woeful all evening, parted to allow him a free header inside the box.
Onions briefly got back into the game when Kevin Ronaldson scored with just over an hour gone, but it was a short lived revival as Saltus ended any hopes of a comeback with his third goal moments after a Ronaldson strike had come back off the X'Roads cross bar.
