BRIDPORT RESERVES 1

SHERBORNE TOWN RESERVES 4

SHERBORNE Town won the battle of the reserve teams at St Mary’s Field, beating their Bridport counterparts 4-1 in the Jewson Dorset Premier League.

Bridport were unable to reproduce their scintillating 7-1 victory away to the Zebras, but the Bees did take a sixth-minute lead when 16-year-old Kieran Coombs tucked home Harry Burwood’s headed lay-off.

Toby Mann was denied a second before the break but, with Sherborne creeping back into the game, the visitors levelled on the hour mark.

Their equaliser came from centre-half Nicholas Jacobs, his booming clearance catching keeper Kian Wootton out as it sailed into the net.

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The manner of the goal appeared to unsettle the Bees and Sherborne were suddenly energised to grab a second goal on 65 minutes through Aaron Binding, who swept past Wootton from a square pass.

In the final ten minutes, Binding and Jacobs completed their braces with a goalmouth scramble and a volley from 18 yards to rock the Bees.

Adam Herring’s men stay 16th of the 17 teams and travel to Park Road to face eighth-placed Blandford United on Saturday (3pm).

Bees: Wootton, Elliott (Kirkbride), Heaton, Ja Scadding, Wellman, Burwood, Baker, Coombs, A Steele (Brook), Arnold, Mann.