Football: Lane lands Derby winner
RIDGEONS PREMIER LEAGUE Newmarket Town 1 Mildenhall Town 0 by Graham Clark at the Town Ground.
JAMES Lane's well worked second half strike was enough to hand Newmarket all the points in a game of few clear cut chances at the Town Ground on Tuesday.
A uneventful opening 20 minutes saw efforts on goal reduced to several long range drives from Jockeys midfielders Stephen Bell and Dave Grainger.
It took the visitors 40 minutes before creating their first real chance, Chris Barrett seeing his well-judged header beat the advancing Rob Mackney, only for it to fall just wide of the hosts net.
As a result of the effort both Mackney and Barrett ended up on the floor, sparking a verbal touchline altercation between Jockeys boss Kevin Grainger and his opposite number in the Mildenhall dug-out Tom Youngs.
With the game resuming and tempers dying down Newmarket were unlucky not to take in a narrow lead at the break, only a fine save from Josh Pope keeping out Lane's drive from the edge of the box.
Within minutes of the second half Barrett had Mildenhall's best opening of the night, Mackney palming away his thumping effort around the near post.
The deadlock was finally broken eight minutes into the second half, Lane finding team-mate Jon Olive with a searching cross-field ball and his smart cut back was driven home by the on-coming Lane.
Four minutes later and Olive thought he had doubled the hosts lead, Dave Werthmann's goal line clearance keeping out his fierce effort.
In the 64th minute Lane should have doubled both his and Newmarket's tally, but after controlling Stephen Bell's pinpoint cross the striker fluffed his lines when it mattered, his effort trickling into Pope's hands.
Despite searching for an equaliser, Mildenhall never looked likely to score, Alan Ross' effort from a tight angle grazing the bar late on the best of few chances they could muster.
On Saturday Newmarket will turn their attention to the FA Cup when taking on Zamaretto League Division One Central side Biggleswade Town at the Town Ground, while Mildenhall will aim to get back to winning ways in the league when entertaining newly promoted Great Yarmouth Town at Recreation Way. Both games kick-off at 3pm.
l A BRACE a piece from Gareth Heath and Angelo Harrop condemned Newmarket to their heaviest defeat of the season when going down 6-0 to second placed Leiston at the Town Ground on Saturday.
Heath bagged his first with just five minutes on the clock, before Harrop added a second 18 minutes later. Things were to get worse for the Jockeys as Heath fired in a third for the visitors just after the half hour mark, before Michael Brothers made it four at the break.
Danny Smy made it five for the Blues minutes after the re-start before Harrop concluded the scoring with his second of the match.
Lane lands derby winner
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