WIMBORNE DEVELOPMENT 5

BALTI SPORTS 3

BALTI Sports saw their Dorset Senior Trophy run come to a shuddering halt after a 5-3 defeat at Wimborne Town Development in the second round.

Balti were massively depleted, missing a remarkable 13 players for the match due to a variety of reasons.

Charlie Kenderdine, Stef Stavrianos and Ryan Dovell all scored but could not prevent Balti sliding out of the cup.

Balti started with a golden chance for Jack Drummond, who put the ball wide when put through one-on-one.

Wimborne then opened the scoring, when a free-kick was tipped on to the bar by Balti goalkeeper Andy Nott, but the ball was tucked in on the rebound after 20 minutes.

The home side then doubled their lead five minutes later to leave Balti with a mountain to climb.

However, this seemed to spark Balti into life and began pressing harder.

The scores were narrowed, when Josh Burton was brought down in the box before Kenderdine sent the Wimborne goalkeeper the wrong way.

In the second half, Balti began brilliantly and got their reward when Stavrianos went through one-on-one and finished neatly.

However, Wimborne again responded with another goal to put the tie out of reach.

A short corner was not closed down and a cross-cum-shot found its way to the far corner.

Balti again narrowed the scores, when Liam O’Shaughnessy was brought down in the area and Dovell slotted in the spot-kick.

Jack Drummond fired wide when one-on-one late on as Balti pressed for an equaliser.

However, Wimborne then finally killed off the tie by going one-on-one with Andy Nott and slotting into the net to cement their victory.

Balti could not rescue another goal as they fell at the second round stage.

Balti boss Marco Nott said: “It was a very poor result, I am very disappointed by it really.

“It was not good enough.

“To be fair to Wimborne they are a good, young outfit and well organised and they had a lot of energy and deserved beat us really fair and square.

“We are bit disappointed because I thought on paper we should have gone through and we were just really poor from the off.”

Balti travel to Gillingham Town in the Dorset Premier League on Saturday (2pm).

Balti: A Nott, R Walker, Burton, Dovell, O’Shaughnessy, Stavrianos (Dean 65), Nichols, Kenderdine (Andrews 80), S Walker, Taylor, Drummond