Ossett Albion goal-scorers Dominic Riordan and Ross Hardaker. Picture: Adam Hirst
Ossett Albion recovered from going behind to an early Jimmy Beadle goal to record an emphatic 3-1 win over Scarborough Athletic.
It was a second Evo Stik Division One North victory on the bounce for Albion.
The visitors started the brightest restricting Albion to the occasional breakaway.
It was no real surprise when the Seadogs took the lead through James Beadle when he picked the ball up midway into the Albion half and hammered an unstoppable shot past Neil Bennett in the Albion goal – a superb strike.
The goal seemed to galvanise the home side and gradually they gained the ascendency with the irrepressible Adam Muller prominent.
He perhaps should have equalised when he was through on the Scarborough goal but his well struck shot was saved by the Scarborough ‘keeper.
The Albion equaliser wasn’t long in coming though. Tim Taylor’s astute pass was latched on to just inside the Scarborough penalty area, he rounded the ‘keeper and just managed to squeeze a cross in for Nicky Mathews to stab the ball home from, close rage.
Albion were now well on top and a series of crisp passing moves came to nought before they forced a corner on the right.
Ross Hardaker’s well flighted cross caused no end of problems to the Scarborough defence giving player/chairman Dominic Riordan the chance score his first goal of the season.
The second half started in much the same vein that the first had finished with Albion dominating from the off and it was no surprise when they added their third goal on 55 minutes.
After good passing down the right hand side Kane Reece fired a cross in which Ross Hardaker met on the half volley to score with a crisp shot identical to his goal the previous week at Harrogate.
Albion dominated much of the remainder of the game and were unlucky not to add at least one more goal to their tally.
The nearest Scarborough came to adding to the opening goal was when Scarborough player-manager Bryan Hughes flashed a shot which Neil Bennett with the slightest of deflections managed to divert on to the cross bar for his defence to complete the clearance.
Albion won this game because they mastered the near gale force wind and general weather conditions much better than their opponents and the victory augers well for the games ahead when the have difficult looking away games at Lancaster and Clitheroe and a home game against high flying Darlington before the end of the month.
Ossett Albion: Bennett, Nicholson, Hardaker, Jones, Milnes, Riordan, Reece (Walker), Sharry, Muller (Smith), Matthews (Bower), Taylor. Subs unused: Dawson, Souter.
Scarborough Athletic: Cracknell, Plummer, Ridley, Middleton, Lisles, Robson, Bennett, Beadle, Blott, Bradshaw (captain), Ghaichem. Subs: Metcalfe, Hughes, Davidson, Stewart, Wilson.