On Wednesday 3rd October Warrington seniors played Southport in the Liverpool & District League at Great Sankey. Southport were returning to the league after being absent for several years with a mixture of experience and younger players coming through. Warrington had a full squad of thirteen players and after winning the toss elected to defend the deep. The start of the first quarter saw Warrington struggle to contain Southport’s Centre Forward and the referee seemed generous with his exclusions. Consequently Southport soon took a 2-0 lead. Tom Cart stopped the rot scoring into the shallow end but almost immediately Dave Price was excluded and within 2 seconds Southport had scored a third. The quarter ended 3-1 to Southport and much to talk about in the break.
The second quarter was much improved Warrington playing with a defender just in front of their centre forward restricted Southport to one goal but this was Warrington’s quarter taking Southport on the counter attack and goals coming from Dave Price (2), James Williams, Tom Hadley, Addison Brown, Peter Burke, and Martin Bosson. Warrington won the quarter 7-1 and lead 8-4 overall.
At the start of the third quarter Warrington were looking to remain in control of the game and started off well with a goal from Addison Brown. The referee continued to exclude players with total of 5 exclusions, 3 for Warrington and 2 for Southport and Dave Price collecting his 3rd exclusion foul was wrapped up and off for an early shower!
Warrington however continued to increase their goal tally with goals from Rafik Tahraoui, James Williams and Tom Hadley. The third quarter finished 12-6 to Warrington.
In the fourth quarter Tom Hadley scored his third goal of the match to make it 13-6 then for four minutes no goals and no exclusions, with Warrington had plenty of chances but little to show for it. With 4 minutes 38 seconds on the clock Addison Brown scored his third goal of the match making it 14-6. Southport rallied slightly at the end with three goals in a minute but Warrington struck back with a goal from Lee Chadwick, the game finished 15- 9 to Warrington.
Man of the Match Tom Hadley
Warrington Team included:-
Neil Mugrove (GK), Lee Chadwick (1), Dave Price (2), Martin Bosson (1), Jame Williams (2),
Rafik Tahraoui (1), Tom Hadley (3), Tom Cart (1), Ian Musgrove, James Collins, Peter Burke (1),
Addison Brown (3) and Josh Regan.