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Bay in driving seat ahead of cup second leg
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Stuart King netted the third for Bay
Herne Bay 3 Faversham Town 1
Kent League Premier Division Cup semi-final first leg

By Glenn Pearson

A place in the Premier Division Cup final is still very much up for grabs after the top two sides in the Kent League squared up for the third time this season.

Leaders Faversham have beaten their near rivals twice in the league, but it is Bay that have the upper hand heading into Tuesday’s second leg at Salters Lane.

Both managers were denied fielding their strongest sides with John-Paul Collier, Michael Dodsworth, Dale Skelton, Dave Soutan and Dave Botterill missing for Town, while Bay were without Dan Lawrence and Luke Harvey.

The visitors should have taken the lead in the opening 10 minutes when Shane Hamshare’s scuffed shot found Dane Luchford in space at the back post, but the Town winger somehow crashed his shot from six yards against the crossbar.

Bay made them pay two minutes later when some neat play down the right involving Jake Gess and Rob Lawrence set Nathan Eastwood free and his cross was diverted in to the net by Town defender Ashley Brown.

With their tails clearly up, Simon Halsey’s side went for the jugular and on 22 minutes extended their lead and again there was a hint of an own goal. A Sean Bremner cross from the left was headed goalwards by Steve Hanson but appeared to take a deflection off a Faversham defender to wrong foot goalkeeper Rob French and dribble over the line.

The league leaders, visibly stung by conceding two goals, went on the attack and almost pulled one back but for a superb one-handed save by Dan Eason from Buster Smissen’s left-footed piledriver.

On 37 minutes Bay went further ahead when a long ball through found Stuart King in space and the former Ramsgate striker steadied himself before angling the ball past French.

If Bay had the first-half, then the second belonged to Faversham as they tried to find a way back into the game. Damian Abel hit the crossbar from the edge of the box on the hour mark and substitute Craig Preston headed wide and just as it looked as though Faversham would head back to Salters Lane with a three-goal deficit to over turn, they pulled a goal back.

A Dane Luchford free-kick found Steve O’Brien, playing his first game since breaking his leg more than a year ago, at the back post and the diminutive winger placed a header past Eason in the Bay goal.

O’Brien could and perhaps should have scored again three minutes before the end when the ball dropped nicely to him on the edge of the box, but the winger snatched as it fell on his left foot and he ballooned the effort over the bar.

Bay closed the game out and are in the driving seat for next week’s second leg.

Herne Bay: Eason, Eastwood (Moore 77), Bremner, Maxted, Hanson, Gess, Turner, Marsden, King, Lawrence, Jenner

Faversham: French, Elliott, Larkin, Hickman, Brown, Shearer, Smith (Preston 46), Abel, Smissen (Sinden 63), Luchford (O’Brien 63), Hamshare.
POSTED: 11/03/2010 08:57:25

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Added: Thursday 11/03/2010 13:23:09 UK
Didn't notice you at the game Glenn. You must have been hiding.

Editor's note: I was at the game, good old fashioned cup tie. Glenn Pearson.
Marshall, Herne Bay, Kent
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