East Cornwall premier

Tavistock Reserves 4

St Teath 1

TAVISTOCK moved up into second place and extended their impressive unbeaten run since November with a comfortable victory against their lower positioned opponents.

The home side started brightly and created lots of early openings but both James Phelps and Jack Crago were guilty of missing some good chances. Phelps firstly latched onto a through ball from captain Scott Wellington but fired narrowly wide from a good position; Crago was played through, ran through the visitors' defence, rounded the goalkeeper but fired wide with the goal gaping.

Tavistock opened the scoring in spectacular fashion, when good build up involving Ian Rooke and Josh Webber resulted in Wellington picking up the ball from the right back, and hitting a 35-yard strike giving the keeper no chance.

As half time approached the visitors were still in the game,but were dealt a huge blow when the Lambs doubled their lead via a Phelps volley from the edge of the area, after a poor defensive header from a Kev Kendall corner allowed the winger to fire it in to the corner despite the best efforts of a goal-line defender.

So Tavistock led 2-0 at half-time but soon after St Teath came back with Karl Elliott reducing the arrears after he sent a looping header into the far corner from an Andrew Burden free kick.

Tavistock brought on Harry Southcott, Cameron Copp and Glenn Hurrell, and it instantly had an effect, when a great run by Southcott down the right flank from full-back, resulted in him getting into the penalty area and squaring the ball for Crago to slot past the onrushing 'keeper.

The home side then put the game beyond doubt following another Kendall corner, which led to Billy McGowan heading in at the back post, the ball eventually crossing the line after a bit of a goalmouth scramble.

This win by Tavistock means that manager Stewart Cawte's men have now been unbeaten in 17 matches.