Frostoms set a club record in the West Cumbria Over-35's League when they scored seven goals in a game for the first time.

It finished 7-2 against Hall Park with Wayne Murray (4) and Kevin Young (3) sharing the Frostoms goals.

Young, in particular, scored a superb-hat trick firing in goals Lionel Messi would have been proud of.

For Hall Park Gary Dodgson scored to cut the deficit to 2-1.

Dodgson then had a goal ruled out for a debatable offside that would have made it 2-2. However Frostoms pulled away early in the second half to lead 4-1.

Mike Rogerson gave the Hall Park hope when pulled it back to 4-2 only for Young to score the last two goals of his hat trick.

A special mention should be made of 61-year-old Bob McGarry who had an outstanding game setting up three second half goals.

Bob is the subject of this week’s picture feature alongside.

In Division One of the West Cumbria Over-35’s League the two teams at the bottom both gained their first point of the season.

Whitehaven and St Bede’s played out a stalemate 0-0 when it was reported that neither keeper was tested in a match in which there were no goal scoring opportunities.

Penrith took to the road again in their third away fixture of the season making the short trip to Sheepmount to take on last year’s champions Carlisle City.

It finished 1-1 but right from the start Penrith were under severe pressure with Sonny Askins having to be quick off his line to make two good saves from Ian Milburn.

Penrith struggled to make much impact at all on an attacking front as City completely dominated.

However a ball over the top by Paul Kipling allowed Mark Brookes to nip in between two City defenders and beat the keeper to give Penrith an unlikely lead.

Carlisle responded well and only some resolute defending from Reebanks and Lawson kept City at bay.

Their pressure gained the reward it deserved when on 35 minutes Barry Pilkington created a chance for himself and finished cleverly to level the scores.

The second half was much the same as the first as Penrith were pegged back for most of the half but as the game wore on City were becoming frustrated by some unbelievable defending from the visitors as they could find no way through.

Penrith finally created some good chances themselves and should have had a penalty when Les Grabarz was clearly fouled inside the box but the referee waved away the appeals and rewarded a free kick inches outside the box.

In the dying moments Alan Parkin saw his shot just clear the bar.

Penrith have now played the top three teams in the league away from home and still remain unbeaten.

 Frizington maintained their good start to the season with a well earned 1-1 draw against league leaders Grasslot. Adrian Banks was on the scorecard for Frizington with Phil Graham equalising for Grasslot.

Also finishing all square were Bluebell and Howard’s Rangers but they shared four goals in Workington.

In a very well contested game Howard's took a 2-1 lead into half time with goals from Johnny Pears and Eifion Owen.

The Bluebell had probably edged play in the first half with Martin Wallace hammering a superb 25 yard shot into the top corner thanks to a superb advantage played by ref Peter Crelling. Bluebell scored early in the second half with a goal from David Spokes because of a bad mistake from Howard's keeper Barry Stewart.

Both sides went for the win but neither managed to score. Howard's possibly edged the second half with their keeper Stewart redeeming himself with a wonder save to deny the Workington team all three points.

However, in the end both teams were happy to take a point

Slloth’s progress up the league was dented for second time this season at Grassmoor, Cockermouth.

This time it was the Bush who inflicted a 1-0 defeat on the Seasiders.

A close game was settled by a penalty in the first half when the Silloth keeper Phil Scott upended Richard Jarvis. The resultant penalty was converted by Mally O'Hare.

As the game progressed Silloth piled on more pressure and pushed the Bush back into their own half in the later stages.

The Bush defence held firm with a few scares from set pieces, including Silloth hitting the bar. Silloth were unlucky not to equalise and had their own claim for a penalty dismissed.

Bush keeper Steve Rothwell and his back four of Terry Beech, Andy Hardy, Steve Cunningham and Andy Ward deserve a mention for valiant defending for most of the second half, earning the win for Bush.

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