Canterbury Youth 3 Herne Bay Harriers 6

Harriers looked the more determined in the early exchanges and captain T. Inglis opened the scoring on 9 minutes.

His shot followed good work by E. Ashton-Konig in the penalty box.

Approaching the half way mark in the first half B. Tamplin split the Home defence with a pass that Ashton-Konig ran on to and fired past the advancing keeper.

Harriers next attack found D. van Orsouw control the ball twenty yards from goal and as the defenders backed off he unleashed a shot that beat the keeper all ends up.

Before the break J. Blackwell converted after H. Evans tormented the right back yet again.

To their credit, the Home side came out after the break with renewed determination and created a lot of pressure on the Harriers backline.

As usual D. Watson proved a capable adversary marshalling his defence well.

Eventually, the home side scored and with eighteen minutes remaining added a second.

Harriers failed to buckle and when C. Tait cleared off the line for the second time, Canterbury could have been forgiven for thinking it was not their day.

Evans and van Orsouw were re-introduced to the game and the latter immediately had a chance from a corner but lifted his shot over from close range.

 Evans was put through and kept his composure but was denied by an outstanding save which broke to Tamplin who drilled home to extend Harriers lead.

Tamplin continued to create openings with an array of passes and van Orsouw scored his second and had a great opportunity to complete his hat trick but his chip over the advancing keeper drifted the wrong side of the post.

In the dying seconds Canterbury pulled another goal back but Harriers were not to be denied a convincing result.