MIXED SATURDAY FOR FOOTBALL TEAMS FROM THE BRIGG AREA

Brigg and district football sides experienced mixed fortunes yesterday (Saturday, February 26).
Brigg Town FC's first teamers lost 3-2 to Hall Road Rangers in Hull.
On the mark for the Zebras were Alfie Usher and Scott Phillips.
However, Brigg were always on the back foot after conceding two early goals.
Looking to secure promotion, they remain third in Northern Counties East Division One.
Brigg Town Development lost 5-0 to Grimsby Borough Reserves at the EC Surfacing Stadium (Hawthorns) yesterday afternoon in the Balcan Lighting Supplies Lincolnshire League Premier.
The big local derby at nearby Brigg Recreation Ground saw Barnetby United (The Railwaymen) beat Briggensians 2-0 in EC Surfacing Scunthorpe & District League Division One.
Barnetby's Lee Fielden has kindly supplied these action pictures and the match report below. Briggensians are wearing the blue strip.
Briggensians Reserves and Barnetby Reserves were not in league action yesterday.

BARNETBY BATTLE TO 3 POINTS

On a blustery day at the Recreation Ground in Brigg, a goal in each half saw the Railwaymen battle their way to 3 points against a belligerent Briggensians, writes Lee Fielden.
Having dominated the majority of the first half without reward it took a moment of brilliance from Ryan Jordan to set United on their way.
He not once, but twice beat a Briggensians player by knocking the ball one side and running the other before feeding O’Callaghan whose effort then fell to captain Joe Scott who tapped in on the stroke of half-time for his 10th of the season; the first time in his 16 seasons with the club he has reached double figures.
The second half saw Barnetby to the fore again,  piling pressure on the Briggensians backline, which held firmed until Liam Davies swung in a left-footed corner directly into the far top corner on 70 minutes to put his side 2-0 to the good and seal the win.