South League

City of Oxford slipped into the bottom half of the Middlesex, Berks, Bucks & Oxon Regional division once more when they 1-0 at home to Ramgarhia in an ill-disciplined match.

Ramgarhia were reduced to ten men in the second half when one of their players swore at an umpire.

The umpire later lectured the Ramgarhia captain that if his team's dissent continued, he would be sent off - a new rule this season.

Ramgarhia got their winner in the last ten minutes.

Banbury crashed 5-1 at second-placed Richings Park, but Henley stay top after a 3-1 victory at Newbury.

Abingdon stand perilously close to the Division 1 relegation zone after going down 1-0 to local rivals Bicester at Tilsley Park.

The decisive goal came midway through the second half when Wayne Dobbins' strike at a penalty corner deflected off an Abingdon defender's stick to loop over the stranded keeper.

Rover Oxford cruised to a 5-0 home victory over Sonning to consolidate their place at the top of Division 2, with all the goals coming in the first half.

Rob Lawrence finished a slick interchange of passes to give Rover the lead after 15 minutes.

It was the start of a purple patch for the home team as they plundered four more goals with a brace each from Danny Bleach and Kevin Wharton. A missed penalty by Toby Lagdon was the only blot on a copybook first half.

Wallingford went above Sonning into fourth with a 2-1 win over second-placed Aylesbury at the Hithercroft.

Aylesbury took the lead five minutes before half-time.

But Wallingford were back on level terms two minutes into the second half.

A short corner was cleared to Angus Jones, who played a defence-splitting pass to John Rees and he struck the ball past the keeper.

With ten minutes left, Dave Barber smashed Wallingford's winner with a 'cross-sticked' hit off a rebound from the Aylesbury keeper.

Paddy Daniel bagged a brace as Witney won 3-1 at Windsor.

Daniel opened the scoring when he finished off a well-worked short corner.

And they doubled their lead when a superb move, involving Steve Bates and striker Mark Brown, allowed captain Grahame Mathews to tap home.

Witney went 3-0 up when Daniel swivelled on a shot from a short corner.

Windsor responded immediately to reduce the deficit, but Witney controlled the second half without creating any clear-cut chances.

Scott Norris grabbed both goals as City of Oxford 2nd won 2-1 at Hendon 2nd to stay top of the 2nd XI Regional League.

Third-placed Banbury 2nd beat Lions 2nd 3-1.

Other scores: Witney 2nd 1, Rover Oxford 2nd 3 (C Wynd, A Wynd, T Griffiths); West Hampstead 5th 5, Witney 3rd 0; City 3rd 0, OHC Chiswick 3rd 3; Eastcote 3rd 7, City 4th 5; City Bulls 2 (A Wintle, M Corran), Southampton Vets 4.