Hurst hat-trick seals semi-final place

11:36am Tue Feb 21, 2012

It was quarter-finals day in the Newark Alliance Cup competitions, and RHP Social Reserves kept up their superb season by reaching the semi-finals of the Notts Junior Cup.

They dispatched Top Valley United of the Notts Sunday Football League 4-2 thanks to a Joe Hurst hat-trick.

Ricky Todd scored the other goal as the Elm Avenue side’s fire-power proved too much for Valley to handle.

In the Sam Arnold Cup Wheatsheaf United were the big winners.

They thrashed Newark Flowserve 5-0 with a brace from William Wheat and one apiece for Matthew Johnson, Jonathan Nussey and Jonathan Upton.

Claypole put six past Fiskerton in the Pat Jepson Cup. Chris Dobbie hit a hat-trick in the 6-2 triumph with the other goals coming from Robert Pealing, Dom Swingler, and Riccardo Leighton.

There were some close affairs in the President’s Cup, among them a 3-2 win for Collingham Reserves over Malt Shovel where Daniel Forsythe’s two goals the difference.

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