North Leigh 1 (Reardon 10)
Abingdon Utd 1 (Dodds 76 og)
An unfortunate own goal by North Leigh defender Karl Dodds allowed Abingdon to secure a share of the spoils in Saturday’s Division 1 South & West derby clash at Eynsham Park.
North Leigh created a host of chances, but failed to add to an early lead and were punished 15 minutes from time.
Ben Reardon put the hosts ahea dwith a simple far post tap-in after Matty Taylor’s trickery in the area and low cross from the byline.
Although a Billy Beechers shot was scambled away for an Abingdon corner, the lead was almost doubled as Reardon’s shot rebounded off a post with Jon Beames beaten.
For Abingdon, John Mills fired wide from a Ryan Curtin free-kick before North Leigh were again thwarted by the woodwork as Joe Burnell’s curling strike brushed the crossbar.
After the break saw Taylor twice went close while Reardon then had a great chance, but his low shot was blocked by the advancing Beames.
Abingdon injected some pace with James Dobson coming off the bench, and with 15 minutes left Beechers floated a free-kick into the North Leigh area and Dodds sliced the ball into his own net at the far post.
North Leigh: Lonsdale, Hole, Caton, Jackson (Helby 80), Huxley, Dodds, Reardon, Burnell, Taylor (Saunders 85), McCabe (Allen 76), Posey.
Abingdon United: Beames, Brown, B.Weedon, Organ, Franklin, McCalmon, Merritt, Beechers, Mills (Haysham 84), Gordon (Dobson 60), Curtin (Elkins 70).
Attendance: 70.
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