Hall brace the difference for Fox
Sunday 11th March 2007
J&A Trophy Quarter-finals
Aycliffe Village 0
Shildon Fox and Hounds 2
Hall 2
SHILDON Fox and Hounds booked a crunch J&A Trophy semi-final clash with league leaders Masons Arms after they beat their Division Three rivals Aycliffe Village in this close quarter-final.
Goals by Stephen Hall on either side of half-time made sure of Fox’s passage to the last four.
It means only high-flying Masons Arms – on paper the best team in the league – stand in their way of lifting the trophy in their first season with the league after they narrowly beat Quinns 2-1.
Fox boss Wayne Mundy said: “I thought Aycliffe butchered us for the first 20 minutes but then we got to grips with it. It was a cracking game of football, very close and there wasn’t a bad tackle in the whole of the game.
“It was only two chances in it, and we took them. Both goalkeepers didn’t really have a lot to do. We just had two chances and Stephen took them well.”
Aycliffe Village manager Steve Moran said: “I thought we battled hard and I couldn’t have asked for much more from my players. They competed well, the only difference was the two excellently taken goals but I can’t complain with our effort and work-rate.”
Masons beat Quinns 2-1 thanks to goals by Liam McRoy and Carl Tyers. Chris Hodgson was on target for Quinns.
Half Moon also booked themselves a semi-final place, against Tudhoe United who beat Green Tree 1-0 with an Arron McGarr goal, after they beat Castle 4-2 with goals by Kris Kavanagh (3) and Paul Burn. Mark Gibbons and Mark Thompson scored for Castle.
| 
