Elliott Star 5 Sun Postal 0

Herts Senior League

Elliott Star had good reason to celebrate a long-overdue win over Sun Postal on Saturday.

Twice the visitors recorded easy victories over Star last season.

A 7-3 success dumped Star out of the Aubrey Cup at the quarter-final stage.

And five goals were conceded by Star at home in last term's league fixture.

Two goals from Gavin Day helped Star put the misery of those defeats behind them in a match which they totally dominated.

Star were already 3-0 up by half time and could have reached double figures had it not been for some woeful finishing and heroic shot-stopping from the Postal keeper.

Manager Brian Renphrey praised his side for managing to maintain a high level of performance for 90 minutes and could find very little wrong with his team's display.

"We owed them one after last season and we stuffed them," he beamed.

It was the visitors who took charge of the game early on. But Star showed a glimpse of what was to come when the ball was cleared off Postal's goal-line in the tenth minute. Twenty minutes later Star opened their account.

Mick Fenton whipped over a ball to the edge of the area where Kevin Cooper was on hand to turn the ball home.

Two goals in the space of minutes virtually sealed Postal's fate.

Gavin Day scored his side's second after receiving a pass from Danny Wicks, who then turned scorer with a wonder goal.

Wicks smashed the ball into the back of the net with a 25-yard volley.

Things went from bad to worse for the opposition after the break and Fenton's cross was headed into his own net by a Postal defender (55 mins).

Then keeper Paul Roseman was called into action at the other end and had to make a swift save.

Steve Buss replaced Russ Agombar and made an immediate impact, whipping over a cross to Matt Jones who headed just wide.

Gavin Day capped a memorable performance from his team with a goal direct from a free kick a minute from time.

Renphrey reserved special praise for his keeper after the match.

"Paul had a great game and made two outstanding stops," he said.

Star entertain Chipperfield this Saturday (3pm start).

STAR: Roseman, Kalouis, Love, Reid, Plumb, Jones, Day, Agombar (Buss), Wicks, Fenton, Cooper (O'Connell). Subs (not used): Theophile, Jacobs.

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