Football – Sunday:
Dorset Under 18 League Cup Final, at Milborne St Andrew football club.
Weymouth 1 vs Portland United 1, Portland win on penalties.
The Blues lifted the converted trophy, but they did it the hard way, going down to 10 men on the hour after one of their defenders was dismissed for a second yellow card offence.
The Terras, who controlled much of the second half, were denied victory by a superb Portland defence, where the Blues goalkeeper Tom Jobe emerged a hero by keeping his team in the game, making 2 superb saves, then, after the 90 minutes had elapsed, the result had to be decided by penalties.
It went into sudden death, and Jobe managed to get behind the ball and push it over the crossbar, signalling rapturous celebrations in the Portland camp.
Both goals came in the first half, Weymouth’s from Ben Moss and Portland’s courtesy of James Coat.
Portland’s hero, goalkeeper Tom Jobe, wins the match by saving this sudden-death penalty.
Rugby:
This season, the Dorset & Wilts Senior men’s rugby squad’s Bill Beaumont Championship playing record reads played 2, won 2, points for 94 points against 47.
Last weekend, the Twin Counties beat Berkshire at Maidenhead by 41 points to 35, then on Saturday on Chippenham’s all-weather surface, they put visitors Sussex to the sword, scoring 53 points and conceding only 12.
Next weekend, Dorset & Wilts will host Surrey at Bestwall Park, Wareham. To be sure of proceeding into the competition’s knockout stages and securing a home venue for the semi-final, only a victory will do.
Sam Baker crossed twice for Dorset & Wilts with a try each coming from Reece Makin, Sam Palmer, Connor Tomley, Kalif Barnes, Sam Knott and Louis Allam.
Rhys Floyd converted 5 of the tries with Baker adding a penalty.
On Sunday, the Dorset & Wilts Women’s team beat Oxfordshire Women at Banbury by 24 points to 7.
Cricket.
Dorchester beat Wimborne away by 3 wickets, Martinstown won at Swanage by 168 runs, Portland Red Triangle lost at St George’s, beaten by Wimborne Second Team by 101 runs, and Weymouth travelled to Witchampton and returned with a 57-run victory in the bank.
Pictures below are from the Dorchester Cricket Club’s second team versus Beaminster in a Dorset County Division 2 match at the Recreation Ground, Dorchester.
One Dorchester batsman hit a six over the boundary rope, over the sight screen, over the wall and deep into the neighbouring cemetery. After 10 minutes of searching and no sign of the errant ball, it was decided to carry on with a substitute.
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