Claregate Park Rangers Shell Shocked!!

<p>High flying Claregate were brought back down to earth with a bump today after a humbling 8-3 defeat to Bushbury Arms Rovers who were every bit as good as the scoreline suggests.<br style="color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" />An early injury to Dale Elliott meant a reshuffle and Steven Cater entering the action from the bench. Bushbury took an early lead before Steven Cater worked hard to pressure the keeper receiving a backpass to force an equaliser. That's as good as the 1st half got for Claregate as Bushbury scored a further 4 without reply going into half time 5-1 down.<br style="color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" />The 2nd half saw Bushbury grab a 6th but Sam Wapshott scored the pick of the goals with a long range effort into the top bin. Jon Wilson was then brought down by the Bushbury keeper inside the box and Jon tucked away the resulting penalty to make it 6-3. Bushbury pushed on though and added 2 more before full time to take a well deserved 3 points. Other players involved were Lee Clutterbuck and Ste Ashwin. MOTM went to Steven Cater for his tireless work rate.<br style="color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" />Collectively Claregate were not at the races today but look forward to taking on Division 1 champions Pensnett Panthers next week.