Rovers Return to Winning Ways

Paulton Rovers and Sholing met at the First4Pools Stadium at Winterfield Road on Wednesday night with both still harbouring outside hopes of making the play-off places in the Pitching In Southern League Division One South.

Both would need teams above them to drop points and they would need to win most of their remaining games to have a chance.

However, in the end, a tight affair in difficult conditions saw the home side move back to eighth place in the table, three points behind the Boatmen, courtesy of a 1-0 win.

The only goal of the game arrived on 72 minutes – and it was a touch unlucky for the visitors as Ed Butcher’s `goal` was definitely meant to be a cross before it deflected off a Sholing defender and past Luke Deacon in the visitors` goal.

Sholing still have a better chance of making the top five than Rovers, as they have six games remaining compared to Paulton’s four.

However, they have only won one of their last six matches and head to The Creek to take on fourth-placed Bristol Manor Farm on Saturday.