CONFIDENT Wootton Bassett A travelled to City of Bath in Wilts & NE Somerset Division 2 and inflicted a crushing 9-1 defeat on their hosts.

Sean Sykes drove home early on for Bassett’s first goal, setting the tone.

Jake Nunns skilfully turned a Bath defender and shot from the top of the D, finding the bottom left hand corner for the second, and this was followed by another goal from Sykes.

Bath pulled a goal back to make it 3-1 at the break, but further efforts from Sykes and Glyn Rowe extended the visitors’ tally to five just moments after the resumption.

The final five minutes was spectacular, with Bassett punishing City with wave after wave of attacks.

Daniell was waiting at the far post to put in the sixth, then a deflected ball that went high in the air was met by Rob Appleby to strike into the net from waist height.

Thirty seconds later, a fast attack presented Sykes with the ball again to make it eight.

As full time approached, a beautiful sequence of passes between the midfield four found Daniell in front of goal to slip it back to Appleby for his second, and make the final score 9-1.

Bassett Ladies 3rd XI made the trip to Newent in Severn 3 and came away with a creditable 2-2 draw.

After first leading and then trailing, Bassett settled for a share of the spoils with their hosts as Jenny Jones grabbed both goals.

Cirencester edged out Lydney by the odd goal in 11 in an enthralling encounter.

Ciren fought back brilliantly from being 4-0 down after 15 minutes against a Lydney side who have won just one game so far this season.

After the 15-minute mark, the hosts began began to settle into the game and Steve Kelly grabbed their first before the interval.

Oli Latter capitalised on a defensive mistake to cut the deficit to 4-2, and moments later added the finish to reduce the advantge further.

Carmichael converted a penalty flick to bring the sides level, but Lydney recovered the advantage almost immediately.

Late goals from Latter and Carmichael secured a dramatic victory for the home side.

Ciren B ran out easy 7-0 winners against Cleevilians.

First half goals from Dave Hall, Tom Webster and James Postlethwaite were added to by Webster and Jack Brown after the break, to complete the rout.

Cirencester Ladies 2nd X1 lost out to their closest rivals, Badgers. The visitors sealed a 3-2 victory on a very wet and windy Deer Park pitch.

After falling two goals behind by half time, Ciren took control of the second half with Caroline McKemey’s two strikes bringing parity to the scoreline.

But Badgers stole the victory in the final few minutes to secure the points.