Cove 1 Horley Town 5

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    On Saturday Horley travelled to Cove for a Combined Counties league match. Horley were missing Luke Ragetti, Chris Weller and Nathan Jupp through injury and Ben Herdman and Liam Cox who were both working. However they welcomed back club Captain Anthony Jupp following a 3 match suspension.
    The game was only 2 minutes old when keeper Ian Chatfield pulled his hamstring. To his credit he played the entire 90 minutes with the injury but may now miss several matches.
    Cove made a lively start and had Horley pressed back in the first 10 minutes and from one attack shot just over the crossbar. Horley then started to get inot the game and some slick passing resulted in a shot from Tidey which was turned away for a corner. From this corner Cove cleared the ball for another corner. The second corner was met with a bullet header from Steve Rollinson which just cleared the bar.On 15 minutes after some persistent wing play from Tidey he was pulled down in the penalty area. From the spot kick top scorer Kyle Hough put Horley ahead. Horley were now piling on the pressure but to goal line clearances by Cove kept the score a 1-0. A shot from Pullin struck the arm of a Cove defender but the referee waved away the penalty appeals. Then a shot from Kevin Lock was well saved by McNeil in the Cove goal. As halftime approached some great passing resulted in Jack Poplett going through one on one with the Cove keeper. The keeper made a rash challenge but again the referee turned away the penalty appeals.
    Horley came out all guns blazing in the second half and following a great pass from John Eldred on 51 minutes Kyle Hough broke free and planted a low drive in the bottom corner to put Horley 2-0 ahead.
    On 61 minutes Kevin Lock broke free and slotted coolly past the keeper to make the score 3-0. Shortly after a free kick from Vinnie Bond struck the Horley upright and then the injured Chatfield made a great save to prevent Cove reducing the deficit.
    On 81 minutes a great pass from Steve Rollinson found Kyle Hough on the left, his pinpoint cross was volleyed home by Kevin Lock to make the score 4-0. Horley went on the attack again but this time gave the ball away carelessly and Cove counter attacked with great pace. The ball ending up with Andrew Harwood and he calmly finished to make the score 4-1.
    Horley weren’t finished though and again started to push forward. In the last minute of normal time the ball was played through to Kevin Lock, he again held off a defender before rifling his shot into the bottom corner to complete his hat trick and make the score 5-1.
    On Saturday Horley are at home to Dorking in the League. Kick off 3pm.
    Team:  Ian Chatfield, Colin Harvey, John Eldred, Tom Winsor, Anthony Jupp, Steve Rollinson, Adam Pullen, Jack Poplett (Mark Gilbert), Kyle Hough, Kevin Lock, Darren Tidey (Mithun Nayee);