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Town's big step towards promotion
Barry Town 1
UWIC 0
BARRY Town took an enormous step towards promotion on Tuesday night when they opened up an 11-point gap with fourth placed UWIC after their 1-0 victory in front of a large crowd at Jenner Park.
Town made the breakthrough two minutes before half time when Rob Blatchford scored his second in two games, hitting the ball to the keeper's left from 10 yards out.
The win was well deserved by the Town, though UWIC, managed by former Barry Town manager Dave Hughes, put up a stiff resistance.
Among a hatful of chances in the first half, the best fell to defender Richard Thomas who headed the ball wide from five yards from a Blatchford corner.
Other chances included a Blatchford shot put wide from 15 yards after being set up by Christian Mills, a Jamie Bradford half-volley from 25 yards that flew just wide, a Dan Marshall shot from 20 yards that went straight to the keeper and a Bradford cut back to Mills that was taken off his toes by a quick UWIC defender.
UWIC came out early for the second half pumped up, and they nearly equalised when Josh Bell, a Barry Town youth and first team player from last season, turned the Town's defender in the box and struck a shot that narrowly missed the far post.
Town came close to extending their lead in the 58th minute when Bradford slammed the ball over from a Marshall cut back, followed by two chances from Geraint Goodridge in quick succession.
The first came in the 60th minute when Goodridge controlled the ball nicely and his 20 yard shot was palmed away by UWIC keeper, Mike Lewis, for a corner.
Four minutes later, Goodridge cannoned another shot from 25 yards - just wide.
In the 69th minute, Blatchford, playing with renewed confidence, beat the defender and launched a shot from an acute angle that cleared the keeper but hit the crossbar.
Ten minutes later, a goalmouth scramble saw UWIC clear the ball off the line.
The Town are creating hatfuls of chances but are not getting the luck to convert them into goals.
Even so, Barry Town are still the form team in the Division, having won 12 of their last 16 matches, scoring in all 16 and becoming the Division's top scorers with 62 goals in 26 matches!
Barry Town go to third-from-bottom Pontyclun on Saturday looking for another win against a team that will surely battle to stave off relegation.
The Town's next home match is on Tuesday, April 15 against Cardiff's Grange Quins, by which time Barry Town will have played four away games in a row and have a much clearer idea as to their promotion/championship position.
7:16am Thursday 27th March 2008
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