Match of the day in the Premier Division, was at Hope Sports Centre and title favourites Rhos Aelwyd played their first game for over ten weeks but despite being a trifle ring rusty, they had sufficient resolve to see of Castell Alun Colts 3-1. Darren Wright, Tony Cann and Steve Powell all got Rhos back on the winning trail with Richard Belton giving the hosts a glimmer of hope.

Brymbo fought out a goal-less draw with Overton in a dour and drab affair.

Chirk AAA’s remain in second position in the Welsh National League Premier Division after a hard fought encounter with Llay Welfare and hey are now two points behind the leaders. It was stalemate in the first period with Joe Roberts twice going close for Chirk and Ian Matthias just grazing the Chirk bar with a fierce drive for Llay. Chirk came out firing on all cylinders in the second period and in the 50th minute Andrew Swarbrick broke the deadlock when he raced past the static Welfare rearguard to fire home past Pritchard in the Llay goal. Within minutes Llay were level when Darren Jones broke from deep to level with Chirk keeper Davies left exposed. Llay gained the initiative and gave Chirk some real problems and only some smart saves from Davies keeping the buoyant Llay strikers out. Chirk gradually regained their composure and both Swarbrick and Price went close before sub Lewis Penrose struck a fierce drive past Pritchard on 80 minutes and to seal the points Chris Roberts beat three defenders in the box before slipping the ball past the advancing keeper.

At the Dunks Venture shared four goals and the points with FC Cefn. Venture’s marksmen were Wayne Roberts and Shane Griffiths with Stuart Thornley and Lee Price replying.

A solitary strike for Calvin Davies, his first goal for the club saw Corwen defeat Brickfield 1-0.

Wrapping up the programme we have Penycae were sunk 4-1 in their own back yard against Coedpoeth United whose convincing success was etched out by Nicky McCormack(2), Dave Griffiths and John Griffiths.

The key action in the lower regions was in the Horace Wynne Cup and the best result of the day belonged to Acrefair who whitewashed Brickfield 8-0 with strikes from Luke Kavanagh(2), Adam Bradshaw(2), Carl Roberts, Chris Roberts(2) and Pete Holland.

Out go Buckley United, they were mauled 5-0 by Garden Village. Making up their nap hand were Robbie Gibson(2), Tom Parry, Chris Davies and an own goal.

FC Cefn savaged Glyn Ceiriog 6-1 with efforts from Matt Cross(2), Matt Broe, Gareth Evans, Josh Foulkes and Josh Anderton.

Ruthin dumped out Mold Juniors 1-0, the only goal of the game came through Jordon McCarter.

In the Reserves Division, league leaders Airbus were held to a 2-2 draw at Rhos Aelwyd who were on target through Darren Greenway and Eryl Roberts.

Hawarden Rangers narrowly defeated Llangollen 2-1 with goals from George Thomas and Paulo Krisato with Simon Williams replying.

Borras Park Albion chalked up their first win on the board to send Castell Alun spinning 5-1. . Completing their nap hand were Matt Rowlands(2), Gareth Jones, Mark Roberts and Declan Bourne.

Kenny Dwyer hit back for Elements Cefn Druids in their 2-1 defeat at home to Bala Town.

LEX XI were beaten 4-2 by old adversaries Gresford Athletic whose marksmen were Tim Steele, Chris Broadhurst and Danny Gray(2) with John Atherton and Dave Bastow responding.

Turning to the Reserves and Colts league, Corwen go joint top with Ruthin at the top after scalping Johnstown 2-0.

Penley had no answer to rampant New Brighton who floored them 7-1 with efforts from Bryn Roberts who notched four goals, Charlie Barton(2) and Tony Howard with Liam Valentine responding.

Overton defeated Borras Park Albion by the odd goal in seven, Ellis Denyar(2), Dan Loughlin and Lewis Cousins fired the hosts goals with Matt Edwards, Ben Bignall and Matt Roden reducing the deficit.

Brymbo powered their way to an 8-3 win at Penyffordd, Damian Jones was top gun with four goals with the rest being shared by Steve Jones(2), Darren Jones and Tom Golbourne. Richard Jones(2) and Sam Richardson responded.