Motors stalled against Eastwood

Feb 9 2011 by James Connor, Birkenhead News

Eastwood Town 3

Vauxhall Motors 1

ON a wet and windy day, the Motormen left Coronation Park empty handed as an in-form Eastwood side grabbed all three points at Coronation Park.

Motors struggled to adapt to the wet conditions on a pitch that looked very boggy in places and with Lee Dames, Paul Brown and Andy Taylor missing through suspension, this game was always going to be an uphill struggle.

Eastwood opened the scoring in the sixth minute when Adie Hawes’s long throw fell kindly to leading goalscorer Lee Stevenson who tucked away his twelfth goal of the season.

Motors had their chances in the first half with Obi Anoruo through on goal after ten minutes but he shot straight at ex-Chester City keeper John Danby.

Vauxhall striker Leighton McGivern worked tirelessly throughout and could have scored a couple before the interval, first McGivern just failed to connect at the far post from a Craig Mahon cross on twenty minutes then a long range effort from outside the area on thirty minutes went just inches wide of the post.

Just two minutes after half-time, Eastwood extended their lead when Stevenson ran onto Simpson’s through ball and slipped the ball past Scott Tynan in the Motors goal.

Motors continued to push forward with captain Josh Wilson and McGivern both having chances but to no avail and as the clock ticked away, it looked like this wasn’t going to be Vauxhall’s day.

The home side made it 3-0 on sixty one minutes when Rhead headed the ball down to Simpson, who looked like he was going to shoot but cleverly rolled the ball back to Rhead who beat Tynan with a close range strike.

The goal of the game was a fine individual effort by Tom Grice, who scored Motors consolation on seventy four minutes. Grice beat several defenders with a tremendous run on goal before driving the ball home from just inside the box.