North Berks League Division 1 leaders Berinsfield made short work of bottom side Saxton Rovers with a comfortable 5-0 home win, writes PHIL ANNETS.

Dan Osbourne, Mark Ingram, Dave Murphy, Andie Samson and Paul Jones were on target for the home side.

Long Wittenham Athletic were comfortably dispatched 5-1 at Kintbury Rangers.

Charlie Jamieson scored for the visitors, but they were completely outgunned thanks to goals from Charlie Allsop, Joe Cummuskey, Tom Mahoney, Shaun Thorp and Gareth Brown.

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Wallingford Town were 3-0 victors at Ardington & Lockinge thanks to strikes by Simon Rees, Stuart Walker and Ashley Searle.

Drayton won 2-1 at Crowmarsh Gifford to leapfrog their hosts in the table.

Danny Curran and Ashley Seamark were on target for Drayton, with Tim Holtom replying for Crowmarsh.

Stanford in the Vale stretched their lead at the top of Division 2 to six points with a 6-2 home win over Westminster.

Kieran McCarthy struck twice and Jamie Gregory, Kris Howell, Brad Gill and Dave Griffin scored one each. Westminster replied via Harry Ackland and Dan Hill.

Abingdon Town Res remain pointless at the foot of Division 3 following a 5-1 loss at Newbury Res.

Rhys Roberts was on target for the visitors, but Dan Langford hit a treble and Andy Bulloch bagged a brace to give the points to Newbury.

Matt Cramp, Josh Ward, Marc Reid and Dave Summersbee all found the back of the net for Grove Rangers as they ran out 4-0 winners at home to Blewbury.

Union Street won 3-2 at home to Benson Lions with all five goals coming in the first half.

Alan Kilday and Jonathan Turl scored for Lions, but a Ben Green penalty and James Cunning’s double won the match for the home side.

OTHER RESULTS

Div 4: Faringdon Tn A 1 (C Benson), Burghclere Res 3 (A Benton 3); Hagbourne Utd 2 (M Churton, L Tansley), Stanford in the Vale Res 4 (A Munns, J Just, T Mayall, D Garlick); Long Wittenham Res 0, Ardington Res 4 (J Webster, O O’Hanlon, D Lewis, O Bailey); Uffington Utd 9 (P Byrne 4, H Bradwell 2, L Butler, E Everett, P Fletcher), East Hendred Res 2 (H Camara, C Beesley).

Div 5: Hanney 66 Club 1 (A Alder), Didcot Eagles 1 (G Cole); Marcham Res 3 (L Jackson 2, A Bolton), Hagbourne Utd Res 1 (M Learoyd); Sutton Courtenay Res 5 (R Griffiths 2, D Page 2, D Walker), Uffington Utd Res 3 (J Quinton 2, C Quinton); Watlington Tn Res 1 (S Carter-Knight), Labourn Spts Res 2 (N Gordon, C Rankin).

Meanwhile, Harwell Village’s campaign ended in heartbreak as they narrowly lost a remarkable third-round match 6-5 at Compton.

Gareth Fenton and Jack Powell bagged a brace apiece and Wayne Robins grabbed the other for the visitors.

But it all proved futile in the end as they shipped six to the Thames Valley Premier League side.

Faringdon Town are through to the fourth round after a comfortable 4-1 success at home to Mortimer Res.

Richard Evans netted a brace for the hosts, alongside goals from Derren Harrington and Christian Wills.

East Hendred cruised to a 4-0 win at home to Hungerford Town Swifts, courtesy of two Jason Moss effort and strikes from Liam McCullough and Ben Hummel.

Steventon went down 4-1 at home to North Berks League Division 2 strugglers Coleshill United. Tom O’Reilly netted for the home side, but they were beaten thanks to a Dave Coleman double, a Dan Kingsley penalty and Elliott Corp’s effort.

Saxton Rovers Res are were also knocked out as strikes by Alfie Davis-Ellard and Alastair Shambrook gave Kintbury Rangers Res a 2-0 victory.

Sean Windows’ own goal sent Kennington Athletic crashing out as they were beaten 1-0 at home to Marcham.

Hanney United bowed out after going down to a 4-1 defeat at Lambourn Sports.

Tom Eatwell, Jim Mooney, Damian Harris and Steve Rackham were all on the scoresheet for the victors, with Shaun Harris grabbing Hanney’s consolation goal.

North Berks Cup: Watlington Town 0, Burghclere 5 (G Lawrence 2, T Smallridge, Alex Smith, J Gannon).

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