Ammanford FC - 3

Abergavenny Town FC - 1

Abergavenny Town, boosted by a fine 1-0 victory over AFC Llwydcoed in mid-week, with the all-important goal coming from Toby Purvis, travelled to a sunny Ammanford last Sunday.

Town were in top gear from the off and dominated play, with Purvis pushing them ahead with a sweet strike inside the opening ten minutes.

As the half wore on Ammanford, who had been slow to start, started to come into the game, but it was still Town who looked the more dangerous.

The visitors suffered a blow on 35 minutes losing the influential Matthew Stephens to a hamstring injury.

By now, Ammanford were starting to gain momentum, and Ben Soal had a fantastic opportunity to set up one of his teammates, but as he played his pass, the ball bobbled out of reach. Town went into the break holding the advantage.

Midway through the second half, Town had a glorious opportunity to double their lead with only goalkeeper James Kirkwood to beat, but Kirkwod saved comfortably, in a one-on-one. Moments later, the tide swung in Ammanford’s favour when substitute and prolific scorer, Craig Frater, side- lined by injury for three last three months, volleyed an unstoppable left foot shot past Tom Indge. It was this which seemed to open the floodgates, with Matthew Fisher heading in on 70 minutes, and Frater scoring again with five minutes remaining, as the hosts cemented their promotion push by claiming sole charge of second place in the table.

On Saturday Town travel to AFC Porth (2.30pm), whilst the reserves who again lost a fixture to the weather last Saturday, make the short trip to Cwmbran Celtic(2.20pm).