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Premier Division leaders BRADFORD PARK AVENUE maintained their unbeaten away record and made it 8 straight wins with a 2-0 success at BURSCOUGH which sent them three points clear as RETFORD UNITED lost on the road for only the second time when going down at WHITBY TOWN. That defeat relegated them to third as BOSTON UNITED went above them on goal difference with a 2-1 victory at home to BUXTON.

Fourth and fifth placed NORTH FERRIBY UNITED and GUISELEY fought out a 1-1 draw that did neither side much good but Gary Bradshaw’s penalty gave him a club record of 164 goals. HUCKNALL TOWN, winners at STOCKSBRIDGE, and ASHTON UNITED with a point at WORKSOP TOWN are both level on points with Guiseley but both have played a lot more games than the Yorkshire side.

At the other end of the table OSSETT TOWN badly needed to win against bottom club DURHAM CITY which they duly did and with FRICKLEY ATHLETIC losing at home to MARINE they are now only a point adrift of Frickley.

Another side desperately seeking a win were MATLOCK TOWN and they too obliged with a home win that dented KENDAL TOWN’s play-off hopes. Today was the anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster and FC UNITED of MANCHESTER marked it with their best win of the season hitting six at NANTWICH TOWN.

One of the shocks of the season in the First Division North came at leaders LANCASTER CITY who, after coming from a goal down in midweek to CLITHEROE to make it eleven home wins on the bounce, crashed 0-3 to lowly GARFORTH TOWN on Saturday.

COLWYN BAY moved to within three points with a 2-1 win at BAMBER BRIDGE who had taken their first points of 2010 with a midweek win over CHORLEY. Two draws in the week for FC HALIFAX TOWN at MOSSLEY and WAKEFIELD saw them lose ground but fourth and fifth SKELMERSDALE UNITED and CURZON ASHTON both won and the top five are now pulling away from the rest.

LEIGH GENESIS lost their unbeaten home record going down 2-0 to CHORLEY and they also lost sixth spot to WARRINGTON TOWN who had OSSETT ALBION leading scorer Shane Kelsey to thank for all three points when he missed a 94th minute penalty.

At the bottom of the table there was a first win on the road for ROSSENDALE UNITED but they stay on the last rung as next to bottom HARROGATE RAILWAY also won to leave their victims WOODLEY SPORTS still without an away win.

One point separated the top five clubs in the First Division South going in to Saturday’s games but the points difference spread to four by close of business with newcomers MICKLEOVER SPORTS hitting top spot when they maintained their unbeaten home record with a 3-0 success that made it six games on the bounce since they conceded a league goal. Their victims GLAPWELL dropped from third to seventh so tight is it at the top. Last week’s leaders CHASETOWN slipped to third when held at LOUGHBOROUGH DYNAMO with SHEFFIELD moving up to second from fifth with a win over SPALDING UNITED who are still without a win on their travels.

Fourth place RUSHALL OLYMPIC also dropped points in a goalless home draw against BRIGG TOWN enabling both BELPER TOWN and WITTON ALBION to move to within a point of Olympic with home wins over KIDSGROVE ATHLETIC and GOOLE AFC respectively.

Kidsgrove at least hit their first goals of 2010 but it was Witton who took the eye with a 6-0 thumping of the “Vikings”. Elsewhere LEEK TOWN kept their unbeaten home record but QUORN are still without an away win after going down 0-4 at LINCOLN UNITED.

[Picture Belper Town v Kidsgrove Athletic]