Long Itchington exit County Cup after long haul to Guru Ravidass

In the Birmingham FA Roger Wood Memorial County Cup, Tracy Thomas Leamington & District Sunday League side Long Itchington made the long trip to Guru Ravidass from the Warley and District Sunday League Premier Division and lost 4-2.

The Longmen fell at the first hurdle as the Birmingham side showed their strength.

Long Itchington replied twice but Ravidass were in control and progressed into the next round.

In the Sunday Amateur Cup it was also an away game in Birmingham as Cubbington FC made the trip to Leafield Athletic from the Oakbourne and Coronation League and comprehensively won 4-0.

Three goals inside the first 30 minutes had the home side on the ropes, Alister Wrist with a brace in nine minutes and Luke Swinnerton chipped in with the third.

Swinnerton rounded it off with his second on the hour mark.

Central Ajax beat Balsall and Berkswell FC 4-1 in the Cancer Cup.

Ajax stormed into the lead with three goals inside the first 30 minutes, Josh Matthews with a brace and Ewan Bush with the other.

The Hornets started brightly in the second half and had pulled one back within four minutes of the re-start via Kyle Heath.

That’s how it stayed until five minutes before the final whistle when Jonny Williams finished it off.

Khalsa FC B also progressed with a 2-0 win over Wellesbourne Wanderers Devs with a goal in each half by Andrei Raducanu and Jay Nathan Ranchhod.

In the Division One Cup group stage, Napton beat Bishops Itchington 6-4.

There were hat-tricks on both sides here - Ed Kostiuk with the Bishops treble, and Chris Watts with the Napton strikes.

It was a real ding dong battle as these two teams went toe to toe.

Leo Kinsella gave Napton the lead after 10 minutes and Kostiuk replied three minutes later.

Watts then grabbed a brace before half time to restore the Napton advantage.

Eight minutes into the second period Watts completed his hat-trick.

With 20 minutes to go there was a quickfire exchange with a goal at each end, Marcus Robinson for Napton and Kostiuk with his second.

Kostiuk struck again to close the gap with a little over 10 to go, and Jared Clamp added another for Bishops to reduce the Napton advantage to a single goal.

With three minutes left on the clock Harry Norton popped up to restore the Napton two goal advantage and allow some breathing space.

HRI Harbury were 5-0 winners at Bowling Green in the Division Two Cup.

It was one way traffic here and the fastest goal of the day from James Kiley in the sixth minute.

Four minutes later Leon Wallis added a second.

Just before the half hour mark saw two goals in the space of a minute from Craig Setchell and Kiley for his second.

Max Lambert chipped in with another seven minutes after the re-start.

The Kenilworth derby match saw Kenilworth Town beat Kenilworth Wardens 2-1.

Wardens were the first to score with Louis Beck netting on eight minutes.

James McCann made it all square 15 minutes later before the winning goal came from James Clay with just over 20 minutes to go.

Massey Ferguson Sports and Social Club lost 2-1 at home to Minds Matter United.

Minds were two goals up by half-time, Conor Smith with the first after 16 minutes, and Beckham Whalley with the second shortly before the break.

The second half remained close and the Tractor Boys pulled one back with just over 10 minutes to go, but Minds held on.

A knockout game in the Division Four Cup saw Lillington Juniors edge home 2-1 at Castle United with all the goals coming in the first half.

Reece Timms gave Castle the lead after 13 minutes.

Juniors responded and were level 10 minutes later through a Kai Cranton goal.

With five minutes to go before the break Josh Smith added a second for Juniors.

In league action, unbeaten Ettington Rovers beat FC Kayi 5-0 in Division Three.

Rovers were two up by half-time. Jordan Gill and Liam Naven-Jones with the goals.

The second half stayed close until, with 15 minutes to go, Glen Matthew struck to make it three.

Gill grabbed his second three minutes later and Matthew added another five minutes after that.

Radford were 5-4 winners in a thriller against Southam United Reserves.

Southam were three up inside the first 30 minutes, Riley Birch with a brace and Charlie Ferguson with the other.

Jack Marsden pulled one back for Radford just past the half hour.

Three minutes into the second half, Matthew Hughes got a second for Radford.

With just over an hour gone Luke Hurst got another to make it all square again.

Addison Smillie then restored the Southam advantage with 15 minutes left on the clock but David Jones struck within a minute to make it four apiece.

However, with only four minutes left on the clock Jack Fathers hit the winner to give Radford the points.

In Division Four, in-form JDS Sporting won 4-1 at home to local rivals Coventry Borough.

JDS were still on a high after their Maurice Billington Cup final victory on Thursday evening.

Daniel Dyer put JDS ahead just before the half hour mark.

Dan McCarthy replied five minutes later to make it all square.

But three goals in an 11 minute spell undid the Borough defence as Dyer added another brace and Stephen Minard got the fourth.

A top of the table clash saw Khalsa C lose 5-2 at home to New Spires.

Shaun Watkins notched the Khalsa consolation here, but Spires hit five through an Andrew Sharman hat-trick, Jack Hayward and Shane Durrans and sit top of the table with a 100 per cent record.