Kevin Graham and Micky Wilson get up for a high ball. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0854288)

Athletics 0, North 4
NORTH dealt out their second 4-0 win over the Division One new boys this season to spoil Steve Ogier’s hopes of a positive result to mark their first game at KGV.

But the margin flattered the champions, who might have gone into half-time behind instead of 2-0 ahead, a lead they added to with two goals in the final quarter.

Mick Le Prevost said his side had been involved in a scrap.

‘Our performance wasn’t very good. Today we had to scrap.

‘In the first half, they could have had a couple. They deserved a goal in the first half.

‘In the second half we dominated and they didn’t look like scoring.’

Steve Ogier was still fiddling inside the home dugout when, with barely 20 seconds on the clock, perhaps less, Mark Gauvain made a hash of clearing and brought down Olly McKenzie. Craig Young tucked away the penalty rightly awarded by Geoff Ogier.

Thereafter, up until half-time, Tics gave as good as they took and Ogier was not too disappointed at the end.

‘There were a lot of positives for us. In comparison to the last game we were much better. Last time [in the Jeremie Cup] they had 80% of the game but today it was more even.’