Carlsberg South West Peninsula premier
Tavistock AFC 4
Penzance 1
AFTER a great win at Cullompton in mid week with goals from Lance Bailey, Mike Landricombe, Glyn Hobbs (2) and a penalty from Will Stringer, the Lambs faced a real challenge with the visit of Penzance to Langsford Park.
The Lambs started off at a cracking pace and went close twice in the opening minutes.
In the eighth minutes the home's sides fine attacking play was rewarded when they opened the scoring. A fierce drive from Sean Krac took a deflection off Penzance defender Josh Kemp to wrong foot goal keeper Andy Butcher.
The Lambs continued to apply pressure on the Magpies defence both Glyn Hobbs and Mark Conday were denied by fine saves from Butcher and then Krac saw his shot go just over the bar.
Penzance then had there first real chance to open their account but the ever reliable Andy Meeds was on hand to deal with the threat. A fine pass from Blatchford found Hobbs on the half way line; he beat three visiting defender before clipping the ball over the advancing keeper into the net for a goal of pure class.
Right on the stroke of half time the visitors centre forward beat Matt David in the home defence but saw his shot go just wide of the target.
Three minutes into the second half the Lambs added a third goal when Mike Landricombe rose majestically to meet a pin point cross from Glyn Hobbs, to send a looping header over Butcher into the far corner of the goal.
The home side completed their scoring in the 86th minute when Mark Conday, who had been a threat to the visitors defence all afternoon broke free and fired an unstoppable shot past Butcher.
The visitors grabbed a late consolation goal in the last minute of added stoppage time.
This was another fine performance by the team and Ian Southcott the manager who must be congratulated on putting a strong squad together.
The Lambs have been drawn to play Bodmin Town at Liskeard in the Throgmorton League Cup semi-final on Tueday, March 30. Support would really be appreciated say the club.