DESPITE a much-improved performance, Banbury United slipped to their second successive defeat, going down 1-0 to a late winner from Jeremy Tarr at Bashley.
It was a brave effort by United especially considering they started without the strike pairing of the injured Nicky Gordon, the unavailable Scott Bridges, captain Mark Essex and the injured Kameron Abbassi. By half-time United had also lost Aaron Str
ingfellow, Tom Breward and Stephan Morley, leaving the bare bones of a squad to battle against a good Bashley outfit for the rest of the match.
But United kept denied Bashley any scoring opportunities in the first half only to have to come out for the second half missing more key players.
The all-important goal came in the 70th minute shortly after a Lewis Travers shot had evaded home keeper David Elm and the ball was cleared off the line by Pete Castle. It put Justin Keeler in the clear and he played the ball forward to Richard Gillespie who crossed to the far post where Tarr rose to power in a header past Joe Murrell.
United pushed forward, looking for the equaliser and in the 88th minute they were almost successful when Steve Howkins turned in the box and sent in a powerful right foot shot which beat Elm, but unfortunately just beat the far post.
UTD: Murrell, Stringfellow (Howkins 46), Morley (Peppiatt 45), Bennett, Milner, Pearman, Kinch, Breward (Stuart Bridges 20), Bryan, Stanbridge, Travers. Not used: Sambrook, McKay
Att: 315
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