Post by Dave on Nov 13, 2024 10:49:47 GMT
The Herald Cup First Round
Match Referee Keith Hawkins
Final Score Babbacombe Corinthians 2 Bovey Tracey 7
The Herald Cup is for many the FA Cup of the South Devon Football league and it is incredible to think it has been running since the 1924/1925 season. The very first winners were Hele Rovers and the current cup holders are Newton 66.
A number of clubs that have won it over the years sadly no longer exist and one club Kingsteignton Athletic has won the Herald Cup a total of ten times, the first win coming in the 1934/1935 season. Babbacombe Corinthians were cup winners themselves way back in the 1946/1947 season.
Last season on the 11th November I covered a first round Herald Cup game between Newton 66 and Babbacombe Corinthians. The Corrie club was not in the best position at the time, I believe some time shortly after this game they had to fold their 2nd team. On the morning of the match fifteen players confirmed to the Corrie manager they were available but only eleven turned up.
They had played a total of seven league One games and had only won one of them, they came into this game on the back of a seven goals to nil defeat away to Paignton Villa 1st. The eleven who turned up gave their all and were only losing by the single goal for a good part of the match, but in the end the team that won the cup last season ran out four goals to nil winners.
Action from Newton 66 V Babbacombe Corinthians
History Of Babbacombe Corinthians
Babbacombe Corinthians FC was formed in 1930 when the original Babbacombe FC disbanded. Several of the players had left the previous season to form the now defunct Babbacombe Rangers FC. Back then they played their home matches at Wall’s Hill and won the Herald Cup in 1947 when they beat Brixham United 4-0. They reached the final again the following year and played Buckfastleigh Rangers.The score was 1-1 at full time but they lost 3-1 after extra time.
Sadly the club folded in 1953 but thankfully was reformed in 1964 by Brian Copplestone who became president of the club and who was at the time a player for Colleton United, Very interestingly one of the leading goal scorers for the newly reformed club was a certain Mr Barry Hayward who went on to become one of the best well known local referees who is still in action to this day.
History Of Bovey Tracey AFC
The club was established in 1950 after the merger of Bovey St Johns and Bovey Town. They became members of the South Devon League and won the Herald Cup in 1960–61.After winning the league in 2007–08, the club were promoted to Division One East of the South West Peninsula League.
I have covered a number of Bovey’s first team games and I always enjoy visiting their Mill Marsh Park Ground. But I have had to think very hard and long about any games I have ever covered featuring their second team. There has been just the one game that was played on the 6th November 2010 against Marldon. The game was played at the Recreation Ground Bovey Tracey which was the former home of the first team.
At halftime the score was two all but a second half Ant Roach hat trick made sure it was Marldon who took the three points on offer. Sadly Marldon no longer have a team in the South Devon league and interestingly in their final years Armada Park was their home ground.
Celebrating the Hat trick Bovey Tracey 2nd v Marldon 2010
How Are Both Teams Doing In The League This Season
Babbacombe Corinthians are in Division two this season and has made a very good start. They are currently in third place in the table on nineteen points. Their record to date, played ten, won six, drawn one and lost three, scoring a total of twenty two goals and conceding fifteen giving them a plus seven goal difference,
Bovey Tracey 2nd are in Division One and has also made a good start this season. They are currently in third place in the table on seventeen points. Their record, played eight, won five, drawn two and lost one, scoring a total of twenty one goals, conceded nine going them a plus twelve goal difference.
Bovey will start as favourites to progress to the next round, but all teams are beatable and as we all know anything can happen in cup games. Corrie come into the game in fine winning form and are unbeaten in their last five league games. Bovey were in County Cup action last weekend and beat Central 1st away by seven goals to three. But the previous weekend they were beaten at home by Buckland Athletic 2nd by four goals to one.
May the best team win
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Match Report
With Corries having four first choice players unavailable they knew they were in for a tough afternoon. But they gave their all each and everyone of them and enjoyed some good spells in the match. Corries went two goals behind and when they got the score back to two goals to one, the next goal was always going to be so important. Sadly for them it was the Bovey boys that got it and after that there was only one team that was going to win the match.
Loved the young Babbacombe Ultra’s who provided their own entertainment during the match. They banged their drum and sang their songs, it was so good to see such young boys out supporting a team and having so much fun doing so.
The match referee got the game underway and Corrie made a very good start and was passing the ball well. Bovey won the first corner of the match but it came to nothing. Bovey then won a free kick out on the right hand side that was fired high towards the back post; a header came in but went behind for a Corrie goal kick.
Bovey then won a second corner and the ball ended up at the feet of Chris Fleet who was just inside the Corrie box, he got a shot away that ended up going wide of the right hand post.
On the edge of the Corrie box Ollie Clifford- Bourne got a good shot away but his effort went straight into the arms of Will Kerslake who was in goal for the Corries. Bovey stepped up the pressure on the Corrie goal and looked the most likely of the two sides to score the first goal of the match. Matt Churchill hit a very wild effort at the Corrie goal that went well wide of the left hand post. Bovey then burst into the left hand side of the Corrie and a great bit of last ditch defending saw the ball go behind for a corner, but it left the keeper down on the deck injured.
The resulting corner was fired towards the back post and Ollie Clifford Bourne rose well and got a good head on the ball but his header just cleared the crossbar. From the edge of the Corrie box Ali Churchuk got a good low shot away that only just went wide of the right hand post.
A miss kick clearance inside the Corrie box gave Chris Fleet a free shot on goal just inside of the box, but his effort also ended up going wide of the target. Bovey then won another corner and this time the ball ended up at the feet of Brad Rooney who fired the ball into the back of the net.
Bovey went looking for their second goal, from the edge of the Corrie box Ali Churchuk hit s low left foot shot wide of the left hand post. Bovey then got their second goal after winning a throw-in out on the left hand side. The ball ended up being fired towards the back post and Rory Wolfe was there to head it into the back of the net.
The wildest effort on goal award went to Ollie Clifford- Bourne from the edge of the Corrie box, I heard the ball finally landed in Torquay Harbour. Then just inside the Corrie box Matt Churchill hit a very powerful effort on goal that thankfully for Corrie got blocked behind for a Bovey corner.
Corrie then came close to winning a penalty, but the referee ruled the foul happened just outside the left hand side of the box. The free kick was direct and taken by Sam Gould who hit the ball so well it gave the keeper no chance of making a save. So now there was just one goal in it, could Corrie get back onto level terms? Moments later the referee blew up for the end of the first half.
The second half was only seconds old when Corrie found themselves going even further behind. Bovey won a free kick out on the left hand side level with the goal area. Brad Rooney took the kick and fired it towards the back post and it went in. Three goals to one now and the task just got that much harder for the hard working Corrie players.
Bovey were then asking if they should be awarded a penalty when Ben Moyle was brought down inside the Corrie box, it was one of those that could have been given on a different day. A shot was then fired at the Corrie goal from 30 yards out that forced Will Kerslake into having to tip the ball over his crossbar.
The resulting corner ended up going behind for another corner. This time the ball was fired high close in on the goal and George Pitman in a crowd of players was able to head the ball home. Then Ben Moyce put a good ball into the box aimed at Chris Fleet who ended up heading the ball into the goal keepers arms.
A rare shot at the other end by Corries Alex Chamberlian went straight into the keepers arms. Corries then went even further behind when Bovey scored their fifth goal of the match. A Long low ball was played up to Ben Moyce. He held off a defender turned and fired his effort just inside the left hand post.
Corries Patric Halliday came close to having his name taken for having a bit to much to say, thankfully for him Keith was in a good mood and made the threat of it enough. Bovey were still hungry for goals, Ali Churchuk got a good low shot away from the edge of the Corrie box that Will Kerslake did well to tip around his post low down.
Bovey then made the score six goals to one after winning a free kick out on the right hand side of the pitch. The ball was fired high into the box and headed home by Ryan Stanbridge, the header and the photos used in the report show the goal well.
Bovey’s Darren Siwiec was another lucky boy not to receive a yellow card. The referee called him over and went for a card, but in the end changed his mind. Bovey’s Ollie Clifford- Bourne hit another long range effort just wide of the post.
Corrie then scored their second goal of the match against the run of play. A long ball forward picked out Dan Lawton who was in so much space on the left hand side of the pitch. He looked up and saw the keeper of his line and from some distance out lobbed the ball over him into the back of the net. It was a goal so well deserved as Dan ran his socks of the whole game.
Corries James Pearse did find his name going into the referee’s notebook after a blocking foul, good to see both him and Keith were able to smile about it.
Bovey then scored their seventh and final game of the match after a great passing move ended up playing Ollie Clifford- Bourne into the box; he hit a low shot just inside the left hand post. That was it the referee blew up for the end of the match.
Bovey 2nd are a very good side and it was clear to see how much they all enjoy playing together. Corrie had a tough first round game last season and did again today. But they are a good footballing side who I am sure will do well in the league this season.
Many thanks to both managers for all your help today and also Mr Keith Hawkins. I use a Dictaphone to take my notes and have been smiling all the way through listening back to my notes writing this report; there in the back ground was those chants from the young Ultra’s
