Plenty of goals were netted in games involving Notts clubs in the Central Midlands Alliance at the weekend, with both Arnold Town and Linby Colliery Welfare picking up wins in the Premier South.

Arnold hit mid-table, and ninth place, following their 4-1 win away to Wirksworth Ivanhoe, who are now just two places and six points above in the table, Toby Francis completing not only the perfect hat-trick, but opening the scoring after just twenty-three seconds, whilst Jamie Royle added the fourth on a great afternoon for the Eagles.

Above them in the table, and high-flying Linby CW, they continued their magnificent home form this season with a 2-1 win against visiting Mansfield Hosiery Mills, who are fifth-bottom.

The visitors led inside the opening ten minutes, Billy Brooks with his customary goal for the club, however, a goal late in each half from Zachary Hamilton gave Linby the three points; victory for the Notts club, coupled with a second successive loss for Graham Street Prims (they lost 2-0 at leaders South Normanton Athletic), means that Jonathan Wass’ side are now joint-second (both have five in hand on the leaders).

There were also seven goals scored in the game between Melbourne Dynamo and Teversal, the visitors rather unlucky to lose a 4-3 game, Rocco Hardy and Dillon Gregory having afforded them a 2-1 interval lead, whilst Kurtis Bamford added a third goal early in the second half.

Defeat for Teversal, whilst having played a game more than those above them in the table, means they are eleven points from safety, with nine games to play, including a derby against Arnold Town in the closing stages of the season.

In the Premier North, the mid-table pairing of Blidworth Welfare (eighth) and SJR Worksop (tenth) battled to a 2-2 draw, whilst Ollerton Town, sandwiched between them in ninth, slumped to a 4-2 loss at home to Doncaster City, the two sides level at the break before the second-place side took control after the restart; Adam Scott, and a late Ashley McEwan penalty, was Town’s consolations.

Ashland Rovers solidified second place in Division One East with a 2-1 home win over Kirton Brickworks, whilst RHP Sports & Social moved into third, on goal-difference, after their 4-1 home win against Southwell City Development, Sebastian Headley notching a brace for RHP.

Linby Development also scored four, they winning 4-0 away to Pilsley Community, Will Knowles scoring twice, and Blidworth Welfare Reserves won 2-0 away to Mansfield Hosiery Mills Blue; meanwhile, in Division Two, Ashland Reserves picked up a 1-0 win at Winster Darley Lions, Kevin Papworth netting for the mid-table side.

*Article provided by Peter Mann (Senior Correspondent).

*Main image @TheOfficialATFC idyllic action at Wirksworth as Arnold win 4-1.