Carlsberg South West Peninsula League Division One West

Godolphin Atlantic 2

Okehampton Argyle 1

ARGYLE put in a gutsy performance with a weakened team away to highly placed Newquay side Godolphin, who had beaten them by the same score the previous week at Simmons Park.

With Stuart Entwhistle, Alex Wren and Sam Brooks all unavailable and Dale Chadwick and Chris Hollands both suffering from long term injuries, the Argyle managers found themselves desperately trying to raise a side on Saturday morning. In the end, the players who came in put in a strong performance to ensure Argyle were always in this game and with a little luck, they would have taken a point.

New signing Steve Madge showed some neat touches up front, and Shane Monnox who came into the back four didn't put a foot wrong all afternoon.

The game was even for the first half hour and both teams created chances although defences were generally in control.

But on 30 minutes, Argyle went behind when a good move down the left saw Kyle Brown cross for Josh Harris to score from ten yards. Oke keeper Harry Geering appeared to have the shot covered, but the forward mis-hit his shot into the ground and the ball bounced up unexpectedly above Geering's outstretched hand.

Okehampton tried to force their way back into the match before half-time, but things remained fairly even and despite some good football, neither side troubled the keepers.

After the break, Godolphin started to take the game to Okehampton but Argyle always looked dangerous on the break and were unlucky not to equalise when a superb ball from Luke Alden put Ben Waters in with just the Godolphin's keeper Sean Semmens to beat, but his shot went just wide. The home side doubled their lead on 65 minutes when Josh Harris exposed Oke sweeper Stuart Cann's lack of pace and reached the touchline on the left before squaring for Phil Lowry to fire an unstoppable shot past Geering. This could have been the signal for the floodgates to open, but Argyle showed great spirit and had the better of the last 20 minutes.

With ten minutes left, Ben Waters raced onto a through ball and fired low past Semmens to pull one back but Godolphin hung on for the win.

This was a hard working performance from Argyle's depleted squad. Shane Monnox in the back four, midfielders Ed Squire and Luke Alden, and Ben Waters up front were all outstanding and Steve Madge put in a promising performance in his first game for the club.

Winners in the Okehampton Argyle 200 Club draw this week (week 35) were: 1, D Wright, ticket no 63, £35; 2, G Smith, no 97, £10.