UNDER 10's
15th February 2009 Ashton Athletic 2 - 1 Highfield Grange
A lackluster performance saw Ashton run out eventual winners in a evenly fought game. Highfield set the pace of the game from the start with a well worked goal down the left flack. Superb goal keeping by Ben Ashcroft stopped Highfield going further ahead. Ashton struggled to get their usual flowing passing game going but this could be due to a resilient Highfield team. A goal mouth scramble late in the first half saw Joe Yates unselfishly pass a through ball to Man of the Match Jason Knight who smacked it passed the goal keeper. In the second half Ashton came out with a bit more tempo and with a excellent one, two passing move down the flanks between Jason, Sam Smith and Lewis Birch saw Callum Stirrup getting on the end of a rebound to slot the ball past the goal keeper at the near post. Ashton now 2-1 up had to dig deep to fight off a very strong Highfield team and with some brilliant defending from Kieran Touhey and James Grady Ashton held on to win the game 2-1. Even with a under par performance Ashton showed true character they are the team to beat