HARWICH & PARKESTON 3

STANWAY ROVERS 1

1st August 2007

Harwich triumphed 3-1 against local Essex rivals, Stanway Rovers in an open and keenly contested Harwich Charity Cup Final. Burnett was kept on his toes in the Stanway goal and was at full stretch in the 15^th minute to keep a Ritchie Meadows effort out. It took an inspirational run by Lee Underwood in the 35^th to finally break the deadlock latching on to a pass, beating a static defence and shot creeping under an advancing Burnett. Harwich controlled much of the first-half but the score was drawn level just before the interval, a perfectly placed corner found Dennis unmarked who made no mistake heading into the roof of the net.
Encouraged by their goal, Stanway came into the match second half, and had their chances to take the lead, ex Shrimper, Pete Johnson through on goal, had his lob charged down by Wass. Harwich had to wait until the 78^th minute to reassert themselves, centre back Keiron Johnson connecting onto a Morley corner to make it 2-1. The win was cemented in the last minute of full-time Calver scorer of four goals in the last two matches, added to his tally rifling in a header, again following a Morley corner.