South West Peninsula League division one East

Okehampton Argyle 3

Exmouth Town 0

IN a game that was not pretty to watch played in difficult conditions, Argyle came away with all three points in a very even encounter at Simmons Park.

For the first 15 minutes, both teams cancelled each other out in midfield and neither side created a real scoring opportunity.

The match was then marred by an unfortunate injury to Exmouth player Connor Preston who was taken to hospital with a nasty gash to the leg.

After a 15 minute delay, the game restarted with a free kick to Okehampton, awarded for the incident in which the Exmouth player injured himself. However, Argyle made nothing of this and in fact wasted several other free kicks throughout the first half.

Approaching half-time, Exmouth began to carve out some good chances and Okehampton had goalkeeper Daniel Malcolm to thank for keeping them in the game as he made three excellent stops to deny the visitors' forwards.

Okehampton, having weathered this storm, came back into the match, and five minutes before the interval, a shot from Adam Mortimer struck the Exmouth post before Steve Kinsey dived to head home a cross from Chris Wills to give Argyle the lead at the break.

The second half continued as a fairly even end to end affair with both sides guilty of some poor passing and wasted opportunities, but as the game wore on, Argyle began to get the upper hand.

After 70 minutes, Adam Mortimer brilliantly controlled a long ball out of defence from Tom Reilly and finished with a superbly placed lob over experienced Exmouth keeper Adrian Pulley to increase the home side's lead.

Five minutes from time, Mortimer was put through by Ed Squire, and he calmly walked the ball round the keeper and blasted home to complete the scoring and notch his second goal of the game. The excitement was not over as in the dying minutes, substitute Robbie Sandercock let fly with a superb shot only to see Pulleyn pull off a brilliant save.