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ST IVES T 0 BASINGSTOKE 1

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
26 March 2017

By Nigel Howlett
■BASINGSTOKE won a typical midtable end-of-season affair on a hard, bumpy pitch in St Ives.
Matt Partridge was the match winner for the Dragons when he reacted quickest to ram a loose ball home while the Ives defence stood statuesque when Joe Gater’s header from a Sam Deadfield free-kick rebounded off the crossbar after 65 minutes.
The goal came at the end of Saints’ best spell of the match, but although they managed to win four corners in the early stages of the second half they were unable give Kieran Greene in the visitors’ goal a real save to mak...

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