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Sweeney nicks it for the Harlequins

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
24 October 2021

By Kerry Miller

ASHTON & BACKWELL UTD 0 BEMERTON H HARLEQUINS 0 BEMERTON WON 5-4 ON PENS
CALLUM SWEENEY’S penalty and a save from colleague Paddy Creese got Wessex League Division One pacesetters Bemerton Heath Harlequins over the line and through to the second round, but not without a huge scare.
Ashton and Backwell United are a division above their Salisbury-based visitors, but were the underdogs on a day when chances were in short supply and a penalty shoot-out was always on the cards.
Bemerton had the best of a scrappy first half playing up the slope, but the busy home d...

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