League Cup Match

Launceston 3      Bude 2 

The first half was a fairly slow affair with the baking sun sapping the players energy, but Bude were on the back foot quite a bit although both teams failed to create any clear cut chances.  All the goals came in the second period and Bude who came out stronger in this half drew first blood on the hour.  A Steve Smeeth free kick just outside the box clipped Stevie Box on the way through, hit the post and young Box reacted to knock in the rebound.  This goal kicked the home side in to action and soon equalised when James Turner got down the left and cut the ball across goal for Andrew House to score. A stunned Bude were soon behind when Shaun Turner neatly controlled the ball outside the Bude box and was given too much time to pick his spot which he duly took to slot his shot in to the bottom right corner.  Things could have been different as Budes' Billy Hopcroft put Smeeth clear of the defence, and with just the keeper to beat sliced a shot just outside the area wide of the goal.  Lansons' House grabbed his second and Lansons third in the 75th min when he ran through and neatly finished past unlucky keeper Gary Dinshaw who had made a few superb saves throughout the game.  Bude came back strong for the last 15 mins and striker Hopcroft reduced the arrears when he worked hard to get past three defenders and finished with a deadly strike from the right.