BROCTON 4-2 COVENTRY SPHINX
Sphinx: Brown, Muldoon, Haynes, Downie, Albrighton, Rooney, Rankin (Wilson 46), Quinn, Dodds, Bates, Thomson. Subs; Jamal Wilson, Walker, Barnett, Downes, Sockett.
Brocton: Bartlett, Ablewhite (Dockerty 52), Wilson, McLeod, Booth, Jones (Lomas 74), Dean (Kinsella 68), McMahon, Edwards, Berks, Keimbi, Subs; Lomas, Horoman.
HT BFC 1-2 CSFC
FT BFC 2-4 CSFC
Goals Lewis Rankin 12, Jacob Dodds 21. Paul McMahon 43, 57 and 79, Sean Kinsella 75
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Coventry Sphinx started 2016 with a 4-2 defeat away at Brocton.
Robbie Banks was forced to make changes from the side which lost at Hereford and his side started well on a wet afternoon in Stafford, with an ninth minute Jacob Dodds volley and three minutes later took the lead with a stunning 20 yard strike from Lewis Rankin.
Nine minutes later and Jacob Dodds raced onto a through ball and lobbed the ball from twenty yards into the net.
Jack Edwards fired over for the Badgers who had a free kicked pushed over for a corner on the half hour mark.
Dodds fired at Bartlett as did Thomson, for the first of three corners.
Brocton won a corner in the 43rd minute and Paul McMahon bundled thin to reduce the arrears.
Tom Bates and Dodds both had chances for Sphinx who had lost Lewis Rankin to an ankle injury at the break
In the second half, Brocton hit the post through Jack Edwards and won two corners in the 54th minute.
A Bates cross in the 57th minute was cleared up to Matt Dean who crossed for Paul McMahon to come and score from close range.
Dodds got in two shots provided by Wilson for a Sphinx side which was making some superb tackles.
Bates went close in a game where Brocton were only not down to ten men thanks to the generosity of the referee.
With fifteen minutes left, Sphinx went behind when substitute Sean Kinsella was allowed room to fire a shot into the net.
Brocton won a 79th minute corner and Paul McMahon bundled in to send Sphinx to a 4-2 defeat.
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