UCL Premier Division Latest News courtesy of htucfl.com

TOWN MUST WAIT FOR TITLE !

The champagne stayed on ice at Communications Park on 17th April as Daventry Town saw a two goal lead slip through their grasp in a second half Sleaford fightback which earned a 3-2 win for the visitors. It looked plain sailing for Daventry early on as they took a two goal lead through Ryan Howell and Tom Berwick but the dismissal of Arron Parkinson left the champions elect a man down and second half goals from Temi Ajimoko, substitute Scott Wilson and Ryan Oliver, with a last minute winner, kept the title race alive until Wednesday at least.

Monday 19th April 2010 - Ridgeons Youth League (West Division)

Blackstones U18 vs St Ives Town U18

After Friday night's Easter Youth Cup quarter final win against Soham Town Rangers youth side the Saints are looking to gain a valuable three points away from home as they look to squeeze the fixtures into yet another busy week of football for St Ives Town. If you are looking to make the journey this to support our young guns then you can find the ground address and mapping by clicking here

Saturday 17th April 2010 - UCL Premier Division

St Ives Town 6 Bourne Town 2

Att : 131  MOM : Conor Washington

The Saints made it three wins out of three this week at Westwood Road to gain a valuable nine points and to give them the form required going into Tuesday night's League Cup Final.

Saturday 17th April 2010 - UCL Premier Division

St Ives Town vs Bourne Town

This week of football has seen two fantastic wins for the First Team and today Warren Everdell & Jez Hall's men will be looking to make it maximum points against their Lincolnshire opponents. The Wakes make the journey to St Ives off the back of a Tuesday night defeat to champions elect Daventry Town. Bourne Town are now clear of the relegation dogfight and looking to frustrate the Saints once again as they did in the reverse fixture in March.

Co Manager; Warren Everdell spoke to the website : "Yes we have a final on Tuesday night but we are concerntrating on getting three points this afternoon which is important to us. We need to go into Tuesday night's game with a run of three wins under our belts"

Why not come down and watch the Saints make it 3 wins from 3 for this week, just in time for the KO League Cup Final next Tuesday !

Before today's match with Bourne Town, Saints skipper; Will Fordham talked to the website to give us his insight into what is happening right now.

"For me I think this season has been very similar to last years with all the early promise and again the volume of fixtures has taken its toll on our very small squad, only by winning the cup on Tuesday can we then feel like we have achieved this year. Before the season started we were all in anticipation that we could challenge for the title but with us challenging on all fronts it has been a sideways in my opinion......

Friday 16th April 2010 - Easter Junior Cup 1/4 Final

St Ives Town U18 6 Soham Town Rangers U18 2

Conor Washington may steal some headlines in this Junior Cup Quarter Final, for his hat trick, but it was the spirited Saints perfromance that will gain the plaudits from the 125 supporters watching on the sidelines. Soham, with their youngest squad in action last night played some good football but the strike power of the Saints was too much for them to deal with at times. Goals coming from Washington 3, Neil McPhee 2 and Tom Sparks. Saints now face a trip to Burnham Ramblers in the Semi Final.

Friday 16th April 2010 - Eastern Junior Cup 1/4 Final

St Ives Town U18 vs Soham Town Rangers U18

Friday night football is back tonight at Westwood Road when the Young Saints of St Ives Town entertain Soham Town Rangers in the Eastern Junior Cup Quarter Final. This fixture was 'squeezed' into the heavy schedule for both clubs and hopefully shoulf draw a crowd as both sides look to progress through to the Semi Final. The winners of this tie will face Burnam Ramblers in the semi final away from home on Wednesday 26th April 2010.

Rangers, who are currently play in the Ridgeons Youth League - North Division, remain unbeaten this season after winning 12 of the their 13 games to date. Saints Youth Manager; Darnell Dodds, spoke to the website last night and said "This is going to be tough game for us and we know that. They are a good side and will bring a strong squad to face us" he added "Regardless of the last two 6-0 results against Huntingdon Town the lads have been progressing well and we are all about devloping these young lads into mature players who will benifit the football club in years to come"

Saints Chairman; Ashley Griffiths is urging all Saints supporters to venture down to Westwood Road this evening. He added "These young lads have done well this season and have shown a marked improvement in recent months so they deserve a good crowd watching them so it would be great if we saw 100+ there to see our lads win"

Thursday 15th April 2010 - UCL Reserve Division Two

ON Chenecks Res A-A St Ives Town Res

Last night's Reserve Division Two match for the Saints was abandoned after only 55 minutes due to poor light. The scheduled kick off was for 6.30pm but due to heavy traffic the Saints arrived in time for a 7pm start. With an agreed shorter playing time both sides and the officials tried to play but it was too dark to continue. After the game Saints Manager; Wayne Singh spoke to the website "It was a very frustrating evening for us really as we had set off in good time but due to heavy traffic this meant that we were delayed" he added "I respect that everyone did what they could to keep the game going but we had to succumb to the elements. We were losing 4-0 when we stopped but we had some great chances early on to score but just didnt take them!"

Thursday 15th April 2010 - UCL Premier Division

St Ives Town 1 Yaxley 0

Att : 101   MOM : Jamie Blackwell

"Saints avenge Semi Final defeat"

Last night saw the Saints avenge their Huntingdonshire opponents by the one goal at Westwood Road in a game which was certainly not short of incidents.

Thursday 15th April 2010 - UCL Premier Division

St Ives Town vs Yaxley

Tonight see's the Senior Cup Finalists visit Westwood Road in the UCL Premier Division with the Saints looking to avenge their recent semi final defeat. St Ives, with three points in the bag from Tuesday night's win over Long Buckby, are looking to get a run together in readiness for next Tuesday's KO Cup Final vs Newport Pagnell Town.

• Last night saw the Saints Under 18's lose to Huntingdon Town U18 by the same score as they did last Friday in the Hunts Youth Cup; 6-0.
• The Reserves face the daunting trip to ON Chenecks this evening in the Reserve Division Two where ON Chenecks currently sit at the top of the table and looking for promotion.

Wednesday 14th April 2010 - Ridgeons Youth League

St Ives Town U18 vs Huntingdon Town U18

The young Saints are looking to avenge their near neighbours in Wednesday nights football at Westwood Road after their recent 6-0 defeat in the Hunts Youth Cup Final last Friday. There is sure to be a big crowd for this one and kick off is at 7.45pm. Even though there is a busy week of football at home this week the Young Saints would always appreciate your support for this game. To see the current league table click here

Tuesday 13th April 2010 - UCL Premier Division

St Ives Town 2 Long Buckby 1

Att 89 MoM Ozie Foster

"What a difference a win makes!"

The Saints recorded their first league win since December 2009 to set up a dramatic finish to the season and potentially a run of unbeaten games ahead of next Tuesday's KO Cup Final against Newport Pagnell Town.

Tonight saw the return of several key personnel in the ranks as the Saints and the Bucks played out an enertaining match in front of an expectant crowd of supporters. The game started well for St Ives with Foster and Conor Washington looking dangerous with every attack. After 23 minutes Dan Moyes saw a ball played neatly into his feet and he created space to drive home low and hard beating Olly Urquhart in the Buckby goal. Long Buckby drew level after 32 minutes when centre half Mark Hewitt rose above the rest to glance his header into the bottom corner. With the scores level at half time and the next goal likely to be the winner Ozie Foster stepped up immediately after the restart to strike a low free kick into the bottom corner to make it 2-1 to the home side.

As both sides entertained both keepers were kept busy and Rob MacKney in the Saints goal thwarted the Bucks attack on several occasions. In the dying minutes, as the ball dropped to Ben Foster inside the six yard box, he blazed what people thoughts was his effort well over the bar but it was a reaction save from MacKney that enables the Saints to take all three points this evening.

After the game a delighted Jez Hall spoke to the website and said "We fielded a stronger squad tonight and it showed at times. All the lads wanted the win tonight and you could see that in their faces before they went out to warm up. The last three perfromances have been good but we played slightly differently tonight and went all out to get three points" Hall's co manager Wareen Everdell added "Tonight was all about whether or not the lads wanted to put things right, They did that and I am very pleased for them all"

St Ives Town : MacKney, Quy, Hall, Fordham, Newman, Dear, Bannister, Rogers (Lewis), Moyes, Foster(Blackwell), Washington (Hurst).

Saints Reserves made the trip over to Rushden & HIgham this evening and came back to St Ives with all three points. Matt Byrne was credited with the man of the match vote and Iwan Lewis manged to get the all important goal to seal a 1-0 win.

Tuesday 13th April 2010 - UCL Premier Division

St Ives Town vs Long Buckby

The Saints go into tonight's game looking to show the kind of first half form that they showed league leaders Daventry Town on Saturday albeit the home side ran out 3-0 winners maybe something positive to come from the game was how the lads rallied round to help each other. Tonight's game will certainly be a tough one and our visitors league position does not lie. Long Buckby suffered a 5-1 beating away at St Neots on the weekend and played out a goalless draw with Newport Pagnell earlier in the week so maybe these two games have taken its toll on the Northamptonshire club.

Be sure to come and watch this evening and cheer on the Saints in their quest for a valuable three points and a morale boosting win.

Sunday 25th April 2010 - Kick Off 10.30am

St Ives Town Vets vs Cambridge & Linton Vets 

The next fixture for the Saints Vets team has now been released and manager; Taffy Roberts is calling on all Saints supporters to come down and cheer on the players from yester-year. Roberts told the website "These games are normally very good to come and watch and we are up against a good side next Sunday too" he added "the bar will be open and normally the lads stay behind for a while and have a beer or two in support of the football club"

This week just gets better and better for the avid Saints follower as two more fixtures have been added to this week's schedule. Saints acting fixture secretary and vice chairman' Sheldon Francis said "This is has been a tough few days trying to keep all clubs concerned happy with the arrangements" he added "I would like to thank all those concerned for their co-operation this week and we look forward to yet another busy week at Westwood Road" 

TUESDAY - 1st team vs LONG BUCKBY

WEDNESDAY - U18's vs HUNTINGDON TOWN U18

THURSDAY - 1st team vs YAXLEY

FRIDAY - U18's vs SOHAM TOWN RANGERS U18 (Eastern Youth Cup 1/4 Final)

Playing three games a week has become a regular occurance, in the past few years, for the Saints as we face the business end to the 2009/10 season in the UCL Premier Division. With 9 games left to play and with only 20 days left of the current season these games are still coming thick and fast and this week is certainly no different. Westwood Road will be busy this week with games being played on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoon. Next Tuesday sees the Saints make the trip over to Cogenhoe United's ground for the Final of the UCL Knockout Cup where we will face Newport Pagnell Town. This is our last chance of silverware for the season and we are expected to take a massive following across for this final.

Keep up to date with all the first team fixtures by clicking here.

You can also view our current league position by clicking here.

DONT FORGET THERE HAS BEEN A FIXTURE CHANGE FOR TUESDAY 13th APRIL WHERE WE ARE NOW AT HOME (INSTEAD OF AWAY) TO LONG BUCKBY - KICK OFF IS 7.45PM

FIXTURE CHANGE FOR TUESDAY 13TH APRIL 2010

St Ives Town vs Long Buckby

After recent discussions between Saints fixture secretary and the UCL fixture secretary a decision has been made to revert the away fixture this Tuesday versus Long Buckby to Westwood Road, St Ives. The First Team are also at home on Thursday 15th (vs Yaxley) and on Saturday 17th (vs Bourne Town) so your support for the Saints will be most welcome.

Saturday 10th April 2010

Daventry Town 3 St Ives Town 0

The first team made yet another trip to Daventry but this time were up against stiff opposition in table toppers; Daventry Town. The Saints held the league leaders until the second half but after an incident involving Saints keeper; Gavin Armitage, resulting in a sending off, the replacement keeper in centre half Dan Newman was on hand to save the spot kick. Moments later Newman pulled off a fantastic double save to keep the home side at bay but unfortunately they proved too much fdor St Ives and ran out 3-0 winners. The first team no face Long Buckby at home on Tuesday evening. (change to original fixture) MoM : Dan Newman

Bugbrooke St Michael Res 4 St Ives Town 1

Saints seconds made a relatively short trip to Bugbrooke looking to make it two out of two but they were denied by a confident St Michaels side who lead 3-1 at half time. Tyler Grissett scored for St Ives Town and man of the match was voted as Guiseppe Pistilli. Manager Wayne Singh commented after the game "This was an awful game for us today, especially after our win in midweek against Daventry United" he added "I was please for young Tyler who scored for us today though"

Saturday 10th April 2010

Both the First and Reserves are in action in their respective UCL Divisions today and both looking to bring home three points for the club.

Daventry Town vs St Ives Town - see mapping

The Saints first team face yet another trip to Daventry this weekend but this time facing high flying table toppers; Daventry Town. After Wednesday night's defeat to Boston co manager Jez Hall commented "We have a couple of the lads back from injury and as long as we play like we did against Boston and St Neots we may have a surprise in store"

Bugbrooke St Michaels Res vs St Ives Town Res - see mapping

The Reserves face the trip to Bugbrooke in the UCL Reserve Division Two looking to makie it two wins from two after their midweek triumph at Westwood Road. Manager Wayne Singh commented "The lads were excellent in the week and I just want them to go out and do it again for me and bring the three points home with us"

Occasionally the website has a Guest reporter and this week it is John Walker who give us hid 'independent viewpoint'. John covered last night's Youth Team Final in which Huntingdon Town smashed six past the Saints.

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