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TRINITY ON TOP IN BROTHERS’ BATTLE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
6 September 2026

By Rob Hughes

SHERWOOD COLL 2
F Preston 25, Kokkonis 90

GAINSBORO’ TR 4
J Preston 26, Brown 67, Williams 72, 82
GAINSBOROUGH Trinity avoided a potential banana skin to book their place in Monday’s draw, but were made to fight all the way by a spirited Sherwood Colliery side.
With the Preston brothers facing each other, it was Trinity’s Fraser who opened the scoring. A neat turn 20 yards out saw the striker beat Harrison Leech at his near post.
Trinity’s lead was short-lived, however, as Jordan Preston equalised just 90 seconds later.
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