MANAGER Sam Collier may have seen Shrivenham slip to a seventh straight defeat in the Hellenic League Premier Division but the Barrington Park boss took heart from his side’s display against league leaders Ascot United on Saturday.

Shrivvy were beaten 2-1 at home by the league’s pacesetters but Collier saw plenty of positives from his team’s performance as they made life hard for high-flying Ascot.

Two goals from Jermaine Roche saw the visitors take all three points, with Shrivenham midfielder Sam Packer reducing the deficit in the second period, and chief Collier is hoping that his side can build on an encouraging afternoon as they look to return to winning ways in the coming weeks.

“The performance was excellent and I think that we deserved a point, and the Ascot manager said that too,” said the Shrivenham boss.

“We went 2-0 down and the problem was that the goals we gave away were a bit sloppy. Aaron Moody’s made a brilliant save for the first one and their strike’s got to the rebound first and then Tyron Leigh’s given the ball away and they’ve gotten a second.

“When you make mistakes against the top teams, you get punished, but I thought that we matched them for large spells and there were a lot of positives to take out of it.

“I know that people will be reading that we’ve lost again but if we can play like that every week then we’ll certainly start doing a lot better than we have been doing recently.”

Elsewhere, Jonny Davoile scored an extra-time winner to send Highworth Town through to the third qualifying round of the FA Vase.

John Fisher’s men claimed a 2-1 win over Combined Counties League outfit Hartley Wintney at the Elms, with Brad Clark’s opener cancelled out by Shane Hollamby’s second half penalty after Chris Jackson had brought down Ben Dillon in the box.

But midfielder Davoile popped up in the final minute of the second period of extra-time to seal Highworth’s progress.

But Wootton Bassett Town’s interest in the Vase is over after they were beaten 3-2 at home by Abingdon United.

Dan Bailey opened the scoring for Paul Braithwaite’s men but a Graeme Edney penalty forced extra time before Andy Younie put the visitors ahead.

James Skinner got Bassett back on level terms but with 108 minutes on the clock, Abingdon grabbed a winner as Edney struck his second of the afternoon.