Cornish Guardian

East Cornwall

Premier

Callington Town 3

Probus 0

CALLINGTON moved away from the bottom of the league with this hard fought victory over Probus at Ginsters Marshfield Parc on Saturday.

This game should have been over as a contest long before Chris Tilbury gave the home side a 41st minute lead as they spent most of the first half camped in their opponents? half.

Three times in the opening 15 minutes, striker Chris Truscott had good opportunities but a combination of poor finishing, good goalkeeping and sometimes desparate defending kept the scorelines level.

The deadlock was broken four minutes from the break when Tilbury started one of his trademark runs before deftly steering the ball past the Probus keeper James Moody and into the net.

Three minutes after the restart Callington doubled their advantage when Matt Shorter fired home.

The win was secured by a well taken Andy Striplin goal to give the club a much needed three points to take into next Saturday?s tough encounter against eighth placed Bude Town, also at the Parc.

Bodmin Trophies Duchy division 3

Callington 6

Lanivet 0

CALLINGTON raced into a 3-0 lead within ten minutes. Goals came from Andy Brown with a strong header ? following a flowing move from midfield, he met the cross with perfect timing.

Olly Cradick, up for a corner, headed the second with no defender challenging.

Lanivet were left chasing shadows as Callington ripped into a non secure defence.

Floyd was pulled down in the penalty area and from a twice taken kick, Brown was fortunate to have a second chance. His first was blazed over but he was cool to convert when the referee spotted an encroachment.

Floyd was not to be denied and after outwitting the defence hit a low drive into the corner of the net. From a free kick, captain Mike Vanstone powered in a low drive which caught the defence out.

Hartley grabbed number five and a rout seemed on. But Lanivet got their act together in the second half and aided by stout defending from Tom Reid and Cradick and a workmanlike performance from new signing Graham Murry and the strength of Mike Vanstone and the steady, James Hall there was no way through.

Hartley made a strong run into the box, forced the keeper to push the ball into Floyd?s run and he made no mistake to finish off the scoring.