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Football: Prestatyn Town FC still plagued by awayday woe

Jan 21 2009 by Dave Jones, Denbigh Visitor

NEWI CEFN DRUIDS 3 PRESTATYN TOWN 2

WELSH PREMIER LEAGUE

THERE was more misery on the road for Prestatyn at a damp and dreary Plaskynaston Lane on Friday night after a hat-trick from Druids talisman Ricky Evans left the Seasiders in despair.

Against the run of play Town took a 16th minute lead when Cefn keeper Gerard McGuigan produced a great stop from a Dave Hayes header, but he was unable to prevent the livewire Steve Bowes’s follow-up slipping through his grasp and over the line.

Druids levelled on 20 minutes when from a dubious free-kick Evans’s 25-yard rocket flew in off the underside of the bar.

A minute later Mark Stewart’s header beat Town’s WPL debutant keeper Ben Rowley all ends up but fortunately the ball came back off the woodwork.

The Seasiders continued to look a threat going forward and when Hayes fed Bowes his lovely touch released 17-year-old debutant Matty Hurdman who raced clear of the home defence and applied a superb finish to make it 2-1 at half time.

Ian Griffiths and Dan Evans missed great chances before poor defending allowed Evans to volley in Druids’ equaliser on 66 minutes.

Town could have sealed it when Griffiths won a penalty for a push by Aled Rowlands on 76 minutes. However, Griffiths’s poorly-struck kick was comfortably saved by McGuigan.

And Prestatyn paid when Evans lashed home the winner from 20 yards with two minutes left.

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