Vale Rec and Rovers into Stranger Cup semi-finals despite late drama
Despite both overcoming late scares, Vale Rec and Rovers booked their spots in the Stranger Cup semi-finals on Thursday night.
Despite both overcoming late scares, Vale Rec and Rovers booked their spots in the Stranger Cup semi-finals on Thursday night.
A PAIR of head-to-head qualifying showdowns bring the Stranger Cup group stage to a close tonight, with Vale Rec and Rovers the favourites for semi-final berths.
HOLDERS will play league leaders in the pick of the round-of-16 ties after the draw for this season's AG Accounting Guernsey FA Cup was announced.
NINETEEN months had passed since Sylvans last lost at their St Peter's fortress and only three days earlier they had turned over Vale Rec in the Stranger Cup.
SYLVANS begin the defence of the Stranger Cup tonight as, for the second successive season, the famous old competition features a group stage.
ON A night where the early momentum in the title race threatened to switch across the road, a superb fightback from Vale Rec ensured it stays as it is at the top of the FNB Priaulx League.
AHEAD of just their third game of this FNB Priaulx League season, Martyn de Garis admits it is already imperative that Sylvans win to keep in touch with the big two.
A TRIO who tasted glory in 2010 will lead Guernsey's charge for FA Inter-League Cup glory six seasons on after Steve Sharman named his squad to face the Southern Amateur League.
MORE than a decade has passed since either last graced the Wheway Cup final, but Sylvans and Vale Rec will face-off this weekend for a place in the Springfield showpiece.
The two favourites for this season's Priaulx League title, namely North and Vale Rec, both secured victories on a busy weekend of action.
HOPES are high of another successful inter-island weekend and, with it, a Guernsey-dominated semi-final draw in the Jeremie Cup, with a quartet of games tomorrow.
VALE REC ran riot in the second-half rain last night at the Track.
AN inter-island Wheway Cup final at Springfield in the spring is guaranteed as Vale Rec and Sylvans progressed to a semi-final showdown after a pair of terrific away victories on Saturday.
NORTH, Sylvans and Vale Rec all make the short hop across the water to Jersey tomorrow for a hectic day of inter-island Wheway Cup quarter-final action.