Carlsberg South West Peninsula League division one East

Okehampton Argyle 1

Teignmouth 1

OKEHAMPTON gained only their second point of the season with a much improved performance against Teignmouth who are currently sitting second in the league. The welcome return of Stuart Entwistle and Ed Squire for their first start of the season added much needed experience and determination to an Argyle side low on luck and short on confidence.

Oke have been leaking goals in recent weeks but the back four of Entwistle, Matt Mortimer, James Williams and the man of the match Chris Hollands put in an excellent display of defensive football and restricted Teignmouth to few clear chances in the game.

Captain Dale Chadwick had put the home side ahead after only two minutes with a glancing header from a well flighted free kick by Brad Ausden.

The visitors levelled the scoring on 20 minutes from a corner when defender Majot out-jumped the Argyle defence to power home an unstoppable header that gave keeper Aaron Dearing goal no chance.

Although Teignmouth dominated play for the rest of the half, on the few occasions the defence was breached Dearing was in commanding form. The visitors did not have it all their own way and good chances fell to Matt Mortimer and Roger Bonaparte before the half time break.

The second half was a much more even affair. With both defences dominating there were few real goal scoring opportunities for either side. Though Teignmouth had more possession Okehampton had probably the better clear chances with Adam Mortimer, Ollie Crimmins and Brad Ausden all unfortunately missing the target.

This was a hard earned point but Argyle would be forgiven for thinking they could have had all three. Hopefully though the result will help give the team a boost and some much needed confidence and give new manager Jamie Ware something on which to build.