Garswood travelled to Warrington Town looking to transfer their excellent recent league form into the Challenge Cup against a side lying in the top half of the table in the premier league.
The home side started with a quick tempo and took the the lead ten minutes in, but Garswood battled back bravely in tough conditions with a thunderbolt of a strike from James Haswell midway through the first half. Just before the break a goal mouth scramble led to the hosts increasing their lead, and in added on time the referee raised eyebrow’s on the vsitors line as he awarded a dubious penalty to give the home side a 3-1 advantage.
Garswood made a number of changes in the second half and kept battling away but ten minutes in Cameron McCall was beaten from 20 yards after a low shot took a vicious bounce. Three late scrappy goals gave the hosts a deserved win but the margin of defeat was tough on the visitors; good luck to Warrington in the cup, they are a really good team and played some great stuff at times.
Team – C McCall, L Dixon, O Roberts, C Guerin, B Wilson, M Lokuta, N Moore (capt), J Haswell, R Eden, L Hilton, C Davies – Subs – M Marsh, J Aspey, B Berry, C Ashurst, J A Williams
Scorers – J Haswell
Man of the Match – N Moore – Real captains display, lead the team by example and never let his head go down.
