Ten-man Saints hold on to win

Wednesday 2nd September 2009, 2:58PM BST.

St Peter’s Rupert Murray crossed for Darren Freeman to open the scoring against Rozel Rovers last night.

TWO goals in the first half proved enough to send St Peter into the quart-finals of the Wheway Memorial Trophy last night.

Although Rozel Rovers clawed one back with ten minutes to go, thanks to a useful lob over the keeper by James Jones, St Peter held on to win against ten men after Bruno Pires received a second yellow card around the 70 minute mark.

St Peter went ahead after 13 minutes when Rupert Murray’s accurate cross from the right hand side fell perfectly for Darren Freeman to head straight down into the goal.

The second came at the half hour mark when Sam Trowek blasted the ball low past the keeper from 18 yards out into the bottom left hand corner.

Rozel did have a late chance to equalise when the ball flashed across the face of the goal in the last minute but it came to nothing and St Peter now face the winners of tonight’s Guernsey encounter between Northerners and Belgrave Wanderers.

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