Brunton slams six as Sports are shot down (From Western Telegraph)

Brunton slams six as Sports are shot down

Fishguard Sports 1 Pennar Robins 9 Referee: Phil Cook

Wayne Brunton again showed that he is one of the most potent finishers in Pembrokeshire Football as the Pennar Robins striker grabbed a double hat-trick against a Fishguard Sports outfit which had leaked eight goals to Hakin the previous week and went one worse in this home fixture as the Robins went 4-0 up at the break.

Then Gary Owen scored a cracker of a goal for the Sports just after the restart but instead of invigorating Darren Turners side it simply pushed the Robins to increase their activity and with Dean Driscoll and Dai Patterson using their Welsh League experience gained at Milford United, they supplied the through balls for Brunton to score another five goals to seal a huge win that keeps them in third spot.

Bobby Bell and Jimmy Anderson have built this Pennar side on a solid defence in which Mike Brace, Ian Phillips and Nathan Hughes are strong, with the outstanding Darren Shaw sweeping up most of the danger so that Mike Murray had another relatively quiet day in goal as Sports front men Ian Bell and Mike Williams had few chances.

Patterson and Driscoll also enjoy pushing through the centre of midfield as Nial OConnor and James Probert play out wide - and it was Patto who opened the scoring with a neat break and clinical finish that gave Carl Woodhouse no chance in the Sports goal.

Brunton served notice of intent with the second goal and then teenager Ben Goldsmith marked his debut with a good goal before Patterson notched his second, despite manager Turner exhorting greater effort from his side.

Then Owen scored a cracker of a goal as he picked the ball up in midfield and as the Robins defence backed off, he got into the box and cleverly curled the ball over Murray and into the top far corner.

But then it became the Wayne Brunton show as the ace finisher scored at regular intervals, including one header after Goldsmith had rapped the bar and Brunton was first to react as he nodded home from close range.

Four others were testimony to his pace off the mark and ability to finish clinically - and Fishguard Sports were left to curse their bad luck in meeting Paul Jones and Wayne Brunton on form in successive weeks!

Fishguard Sports: Carl Woodhouse: Gareth OSullivan (Neil Phillips); Gary Owen; Darren Turner; Russell Watkins: Steve Evans; Rob Hughes; Steve James; Kevin Williams (Owen Duggan): Ian Bell; Mike Williams.

Pennar Robins: Mike Murray: Nathan Hughes; Mike Brace; Darren Shaw; Ian Phillips (Marcus Lyons): James Probert; Dai Patterson; Dean Driscoll; Nial OConnor (Andrew Green): Ben Goldsmith; Wayne Brunton.