Weston Athletic secured a comfortable 7 – 0 victory over Westbury Reserves on Saturday in the North Gloucestershire Division 2, with two of the goals coming from Captain Paul Burnham and Jamie Jones scoring his first goal of the season. After the game there was further good news for Weston when it was discovered that top side Lyndey had lost, which gives Weston an outside chance of the league, they are now 11 points behind, but with four games in hand, and with only six games left for Weston to play.

Weston made a couple of changes to the starting 11 from last week, with Shaun Aston and Alex Malsom coming in for Chalky Robertshaw and Wes Downing. For the second week in a row Weston started slowly and although they did not look like conceding they were finding it difficult to create any good goal scoring chances. On 20 minutes Weston eventually broke the deadlock, Lee Walker picked the ball up in his own half and went past a couple of tackles before sliding a delightful ball through for Eli Wooding, who finished well to put Weston one up. Within ten minutes their lead had doubled, this time Wooding was the provider, he whipped in excellent ball to the back post which was met by Liam Parry, who with the slightest of touches pushed the ball past the keeper to score his third goal in the last two games, Weston went into half time with a comfortable two nil lead.

After a poor first half performance Weston came out in the second playing much better and controlled the game for long periods. The third goal came through Walker, who was again Weston's best player on the day, after a corner was not fully cleared the ball fell to Walker who took a first touch and finished with power into the bottom corner from 25 yards out. This goal seemed to kill any spirit left in the away side and if it was not for their keeper, Weston would have been out of sight. On numerous occasions he pulled off excellent saves in particular from Walker, Wooding and twice from Dave Nicholls. Eventually he was beaten by a header from Nicholls at the back post after a cross by Parry to put Weston four up. Captain Paul Burnham then got in on the scoring act, with two quick fire goals. The first one with a power finish from six yards out, and his second after he took on two players in the box and finished with his trusty left foot to give the keeper no chance. The moment of the game came in the 80th minute, when substitute Jasper Jones scored his first goal of the season. Wooding's initial shot was saved but the rebound fell nicely for Jones to finish and score Weston's seventh of the game and complete the scoring.

With other results going Weston's way they have an outside chance of winning an unlikely league title, with six games left, they know that six wins will win them the league, however they face a couple of tricky games over coming weeks.

T R Yates Man of the Match – Lee Walker, Weston's most consistent player over recent weeks.

This week Weston travel away to face White Horse at Dean Magna School with kick off at 2.30pm.