BOLTON County's extra fitness played a large part in a 3-0 home Premier Division win over Lymm.
There was little to choose between the two sides until the closing stages when promoted County soared to another three points with goals from Jamie McDonald, Peter Crompton and Rob Howarth, centre back Mark Murray voted man of the match.
Old Bolts came up against one of the best young sides in the division and went down to a 5-3 defeat at Old Blackburnians. Three behind at the break Bolts had a better second half, goals coming from Mark Grundy, man of the match Jules Ellis and Damien Wrigley.
Mark Aston from the penalty spot and Paul Wilde scored for Bury GSOB in a 3-2 defeat at Accrington Amateurs, midfielder Mike Tarron given the star performer vote.
Rivington went down 4-3 at defending champions Highfield. Walshaw head the Division One table after a 3-1 win at Mancunians with Radcliffe Amateurs and Little Lever joint second. The Ammies came from a goal behind to win 4-3 at Broughton Amateurs with goals from Kevin Holbrook, Gary Andrew, Steve Tuke and a Mark Mafia penalty, midfielder Rick Stevens the star of the show.
A Clint Aspinall goal and man of the match performance from Chris Gibbon saw Thornleigh draw 1-1 at home to Roch Valley. Three goals in the first 20 minutes were the base for Horwich RMI to win 4-2 at home to Newman College. Peter Worthington, Nathan Smith, Ryan Cooke and Neil Horrocks were the scorers with the man of the match award shared between Peter Worthington and Rob Sharratt.
The derby game in Division Two saw Bolton Lads Club win 3-2 at Wyresdale to stay second in the table, Wes Gallagher adding another goal to his tally and midfielder Danny Russell voted man of the match. Wyredale's goals came from Vijay Mistry and Darren Scott.
5-2 down with eight minutes left at Burnley GSOB Ainsworth battled back to draw 5-5 with manager Duncan McLelland praising the never-say- die attitude of his players. Man of the match Neil Ross scored helped himself to a hat-trick with further goals coming from Paul Roscoe and Des Wilcox.
Ambassadors fought back from going two goals behind at Chorley Motors but ran out of steam late on to go down 4-2.
Player manager, Simon Murphy, a little lost for words after another harsh defeat said: " All our best efforts came through the Smith brothers, Nick and Damian. I wish I could find a few more players like them. We certainly wouldn't be in the position we are in if I could."
THE REZZIES
Ainsworth 2nds lost their unbeaten record losing 2-1 to Horwich RMI (Keith Waddington, mom Gareth Atkinson)
Bolton County - 2nds drew 2-2 at Lymm (Mark Ashcroft, Simon Walkden - mom), 4ths gained their first point with a 0-0 draw at Horwich RMI
Bury GSOB - 2nds won 5-4 at Gregs, 3rds won 2-1 at O Mancs, 4ths lost 5-2 to Gregs
Horwich RMI - 2nds won 2-1 at previously unbeaten Ainsworth (Peter Costello, Andrew Dewitt), 3rds drew 0-0 with Bolton County despite having only ten men. Manager Lloyd Thomas had a blinder as stand-in keeper.)
Radcliffe Ams - 2nds lost 2-0 to Highfield (mom - Paul Nuttall), 3rds beat Thornleigh 4-2 at home (Mark Crowther 2, Darren McGlynn 2, mom Chris Bluer)
Thornleigh - 2nds won 7-0 at Roch Valley (Simon Phillips and Dave Carroll (mom) 2, Barry Hignett, Martin Roach, Anthony Harris), 3rds lost 4-2 at Radcliffe (Mark Ashton, Chris Lever) 4ths lost 4-2 to Burnley (Lee Follows, Craig Harrison)
Wyresdale - 2nds lost 11-0 at Heywood St James, 3rds lost 7-5 to O Blacks (Tony Gaynor 4, Simon Griffiths) Reserves
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