Torpoint Athletic returned to winning ways on Saturday afternoon at The Mill with this emphatic victory over third place Barnstaple Town, with Ryan Richards grabbing a hat-trick and a Curtis Damerell wonder goal, which would go down as a contender for the goal of the season seen by The Mill faithful. Meanwhile the visitors had to play 45 minutes with ten men when Josh Parry was shown a red card just before half time. The Barum tested the host’s defence first when Josh Parry was played into to the area, his shot from an angle from 18 yards was well saved with a diving save by Ryan Rickard. Just before the quarter hour mark to the shock of the visitors, Torpoint took the lead when James Rowe put the ball through to Richards who chested the ball to his feet and blasted home from 10 yards past Kane Gregory the visitors keeper. Then a couple of minutes later with hosts in the ascendancy of possession, good build up play by Jed Smale and Damerell played in Richards for his shot is blocked by Gregory. Half way through the half with the visitors are trying to get back into the game, Ricky Marinaro had a shot from distance which just went over the bar. With two minutes remaining of the first period the visitors were reduced to ten men when a late tackle by Josh Parry on Elliot Crawford, the referee showed no hesitation with giving Parry his marching orders.
Then if went from bad to worse for the North Devon club when the hosts doubled their lead right on half time when Josh Pope sent in a pinpoint cross to Richards who sent home a powerful header from 10 yards past Gregory. With Torpoint making the most of the extra man in the second half, they extended their lead further. On the 68th minute, a ball was played through to Curtis Damerell, he did a couple of keep me ups and then turned with the ball and lobbed Gregory from 25 yards to the amazement of the home fans. With 18 minutes remaining of the game which is now out of reach of the visitors when Torpoint scored their fourth. James Rowe puts a ball in from the right, Richards wins the ball in the area off a defender and slots home past Gregory for his hat trick.

Second and Thirds

It was a day for some draws on the road as the second and third team both drew their respective games, with a 2-2 draw away in Millbrook for the 2’s and a 1-1 draw at Looe for the 3rds.

Youth

Plymouth
Marjon Youth
St John u15

4-1

Torpoint
Athletic Youth
Tamar u15