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Ludlow Town 2 Lye Town 4.

LUDLOW rounded off their Sport Italia West Midlands League Premier Division campaign with a home defeat at the hands of visiting mid-table opponents Lye.

It was a performance typical of many of their games this term. Ludlow started well but failed to capitalise on good chances, then conceded soft goals before finally showing strong character to fightback in the closing stages.

Town controlled the opening 20 minutes and were on top to the extent that the visiting players were starting to argue among themselves.

During that spell Ludlow carved out four good chances, with Andy Pugh and Lee Millichip being denied by the keeper and the woodwork in equal portions.

The game then turned on its head with Lye scoring twice in a minute. They broke away down the right flank, crossed and headed in the first.

Ludlow took the restart and played the ball back to keeper Rickie Marsden. His attempted pass to a colleague struck the Lye centre forward, and ended up in the back of the net.

When the visitors doubled their lead with goals after 60 and 65 minutes, both with question marks against the home defence, a hammering looked possible.

Town rallied during the final quarter and pulled two goals back.

Marcus Sherrad fired home the first from the edge of the box and then got in the way of a John Helston shot, with the deflection taking the ball past the Lye keeper.

Unfortunately there were fewer than 10 minutes to go by this stage and Lye held on to take the points.

12:36pm Friday 2nd May 2008

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