Town on the up!

WARRINGTON Town continued their steady climb up the Unibond Division One North table with an impressive 2-0 victory at Radcliffe Borough.
Town avenged their earlier FA Cup defeat, extending their winning run to four games, the previous three of which have also been away from home.
Town started brightly, but it was the home side who had the first chance, Boro’s ex Shrewsbury striker Jody Banim firing over Town keeper Jack Baker’s cross bar.
Striker Tony Evans had Warrington’s first chance, seeing his dipping effort go narrowly wide, but Evans was not going to be denied for long, for in the 10th minute, he raced onto defender Tom Hardwick’s long clearance to coolly lob Lloyd Rigby in the Radcliffe goal, the keeper getting his hand to the ball, but could not keep it out of the net.
After this, the game settled down and both sides began to test the other out somewhat. Radcliffe midfielder Mark Jones blasting over the cross bar and into the Town fans amassed behind the goal, and Banim seeing his drive from the edge of the box go narrowly wide. Defender Mike Grogan denied Radcliffe, shortly before half time, with a last gasp challenge as the home side pushed forward looking for an equaliser. The last chance of the half falling to Town’s Jimmy McCarthy who saw his rising drive from 15 yards plucked form the top corner by Rigby.
Town came out in the second half of the game and took charge of proceedings. In a spell of possession, the closest Town came to a goal was from returning full back Darren Kinsey, who saw his drive go straight at Rigby. Warrington thought they had found a second goal, through winger Joe McLennan who shot home after Rigby superbly saved Grogan’s initial header, however, referee Mr Dunn ruled the goal out for a push by Grogan.
Just three minutes later, veteran striker Karl Connelly, came close to his first goal for Town, seeing his header from Gahgan’s corner beat Rigby, but be cleared off the line by full back Alastair Brown. Radcliffe went close to scoring soon after but could not find the way through in a goalmouth scramble, involving many players. The home side went closest to equalising through winger Martyn Forrest, who saw his free kick go across the face of Baker’s goal. Town continued to dominate the game, with McLennan seeing his drive go narrowly over the bar.
Both sides introduced a number of subs, due to the very heavy conditions and driving rain, indeed it was one of the subs who secured the deserved three points for Town, with Town’s Maltese Under 21 international Richie Chetcuti turning smartly in the box and dispatching an angled drive past Rigby and into the bottom corner of the net.
Pictures show Chris Gahgan (top) getting stuck in, Tony Evans lobbing the keeper for the opening goal, Jimmy McCarthy getting a shot in and goal scorers Richard Chetcuti and Tony Evans celebrating another get result for Town.


Town: Baker, Smith, Kinsey, Tomlinson, Grogan, Taylor (c), McLennan, McCarthy, Evans, Connelly (Chetcuti, 71), Gahgan, Subs not used: Dacey, Brown