Devon and Exeter premier

Newton St Cryes 0

Okehampton Argyle 2

ANOTHER great win on the road for Okehampton with easily the best away performance of the season against a good young, Newton team.

The home side had deservedly gained a 2-2 draw in the fixture at Simmons Park earlier in the season and have themselves been in a rich vein of form losing only once in the last six games.

The first half was played almost entirely in Newton St Cryes half with the Argyle front three of Tallan Burns, Brad Ausden and Luke Mortimore running the Newton defence ragged for the entire 45 minutes and when the home team did have the ball they found they were quickly closed down by the Okehampton midfield of Dale Chadwick, Steve Kinsey and Ed Squires, who all worked tirelessly throughout the 90 minutes

The first goal for the visitors eventually came from a lovely finish from Luke Mortimore, who broke in from the left and ran onto a superb ball from Tallan Burns, jigged passed a couple of Newton defenders before slipping the ball past the stranded Newton goalkeeper, who up to that point had kept Newton in the game with a string of excellent saves.

The second half started the same as the first with the majority of the game, played in the Newton half, and it was only a matter of time before Okehampton increased their lead, which they did after 60 minutes with a beautiful 22 yard strike from Dale Chadwick into the bottom left hand corner leaving the Newton keeper rooted to the spot.

The remaining 30 minutes was a much more even affair with Argyle content to sit back and preserve their 2-0 advantage which they managed to do apart from the odd Newton half chance with relative ease.

Overall this was a fantastic performance from Argyle against definitely one of the better teams in the league. Every single player in the squad never stopped running or closing down the opposition from the front to the back, it was a complete team per-formance and going forward the pace the slick passing of the front three will continue to cause any team in the league problems and with the defence only conceeding one in the last three games the whole team is moving in a positive direction.

This was another valuable three points bagged and the unbeaten run now on 13 games; the longer the season has gone on the more impressive Okehampton Argyle have become and without the poor form they showed in the early part of the season they could easily have been challenging for the title.