CHRISTLETON Newscene rose to the top of Chester & District Junior League Division One on Sunday with an emphatic 4-0 victory over previous pacesetters Upton South.

Top-scorer Callum Parry headed the hosts in front before man-of-the-match Jordan Hampshire bagged a brace. Ryan Crofts completed the scoring.

Chris McDermott’s second-half strike earned Chester Nomads Colts a 2-2 Division Two draw at Malpas & District, who cancelled out MoM Joe Hughes’ opener with Williams Hopkins and Sam Green efforts.

Leaders Newton Athletic (Ben Jones 2, Danny Warren, Jonny Mountford, Tom Tew) came from behind to win 5-2 at home to Blacon Youth Whites (Lewis Bradley 2) as Elton Youth (Lucas O’Neill 3, Josh Jones, Joseph Smith, Dean Simcott) cemented second spot with a 6-2 success at Hope Farm Hotspurs (Gary Bebbington, David Murrey).

Pulford went down 3-2 at home to Vicars Cross Dynamos despite two goals from Mike Kelly, who shared the MoM honours with Will Scott.

Colts show spirit

SPIRITED Saughall Colts fought back from three goals down to draw a Under 15s Division One thriller at home to title-challenging Malpas & District 4-4.

JFC Boughton made it a magnificent seven wins from seven in Division Two.

Inspired by star player Alex Garner, Boughton won 4-2 at third-placed Rossway United with goals from Matthew Gilmour, Ben Gregory (2) and Lewis Donovan to stay top from Hope Farm Hotspurs, who won a pulsating game at fourth-placed Waverton 3-2 despite a MoM show from Adam Goldthorpe.

Chester Nomads Colts (Aaron Bell 2, Anthony Grubb 2, Matty Jones, Thomas Johnson, Dominic Harper) stormed to a 7-2 success at Blacon Youth but Westminster Park lost 3-2 at home to Hope Farm Rangers.

Clubmates beaten

CHESTER Nomads Colts maintained pole position in Under 13s Division One with a 3-2 victory over clubmates Chester Nomads.

Cameron Black netted for the defeated ‘visitors’, for whom Sean Bates was MoM.

JFC Boughton sent Castrol Athletic packing 9-0 with hitmen Charlie Jones and Jonathan Lee, and Dan Burgess and Dan Williams doing the damage.

Newton Athletic let a two-goal lead slip as they were edged out 4-3 at home by Princes Villa. Kieran Hodgeson hit a hat-trick for Newton, but it was solid centre-back Adam Pascoe who was named MoM.

Upton won 7-4 at home to Hope Farm Rangers in Division Two.

Boughton on rise

JFC Boughton are looking up in the Under 12s Division One after their 8-0 home win over Waverton Bees.

MoM Jack Rowlands was at the double with Aaron Haddock, Ben Middleton, Cameron Gardner, Will Smith, Kieran Trevor and John Davies adding singles.

Malpas & District remain level on points at the top of Division Two following their 7-1 success at home to Hope Farm Rangers.

Leaders Princes Villa won 1-0 at Hoole Hornets through a Mitch Glover goal and a MoM display from Liam Wall.

Rivals play out draw

THE Under 11s Division match of the day ended even as second-placed Malpas & District drew 3-3 at home to table-topping Blacon Youth.

Blacon bossed the first half and took a three-goal advantage into the break courtesy of stunning Tom Rose, Warren Millington and Tom Crawford strikes.

Malpas were grateful to their goalkeeper for keeping the score down, but they emerged a different team after the restart and hit back to level an enthralling contest. The equaliser sparked Blacon into life, though, and, following a fine run from Crawford, Millington cracked the post.

But it was Malpas who finished the game the stronger and they forced star man Harry Reilly into two top-class saves.

Joel Griffiths was MoM as JFC Boughton cruised to an 8-0 home victory over Castrol Athletic with goals from Joe McDermott (2), Robbie Williams (2), Andy Bewley, Joe Lamb, Tom Merrill and Kieran Atkinson.

A brilliant hat-trick from MoM Rob Elvey fired Waverton Hornets to a 3-2 win at Newton Athletic.

Scott Cobden bagged a brace as Saughall Colts claimed the scalp of Division Two leaders Chester Nomads Colts.

Harry Armatage replied for Nomads in the 2-1 loss, with Joseph Rossiter their MoM. Matthew Leek was Saughall’s star boy.

Second-placed Upton Blacks closed the gap with a 9-0 romp at home to Waverton Wasps.