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MOATMEN GRATEFUL FOR A FAST START

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
16 April 2017

RUGBY TOWN 1 GRESLEY FC 2
By Jon Venner
GRESLEY edged out relegationthreatened Rugby, with two goals in the opening seven minutes causing the damage at Butlin Road.
Reece Morris netted a Matthew Melbourne cross for the first before Melbourne claimed the final touch to Tom Manship’s low free-kick which somehow crept under Town keeper Louis Connor.
Rugby got their lifeline on 26 minutes when Melbourne was harshly adjudged to have handled Aaron Moses-Garvey’s volley in the area, and Levi Rowley stepped up to power home the penalty.
But they could not make the telling breakthrough.
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