Bournemouth Sports secured an impressive 3-0 away win at Westland Sports to keep their title hopes alive. 

The game was fairly even in the opening exchanges as both teams weighed each other up. Sam Darlow saw his flicked header from a corner come off the crossbar whilst at the other end the hosts almost took advantage of some hesitation in the Bournemouth defence when a striker lobbed keeper Ryan Knibbs, but saw his effort go narrowly wide. 

James Bergin saw a great strike from just outside the area following a Bournemouth corner sail agonisingly over whilst Westland Sports had the ball in the net in the 38th minute, but the goal was ruled out for offside. The men from Chapel Gate would break the deadlock just before half time when a great cross from James Bergin was converted at close range by Taylor Webb. HT 0-1

Bournemouth found another level in the second half and went ahead in the 47th minute when Taylor Webb was played in from a great pass by Sam Darlow and fired past Westland Keeper Harrison Wallis. Indeed Webb almost completed a hat-trick when his pace got him in on goal in the 55th minute, but on this occasion was denied by a good save from Wallis. 

The visitors had two great opportunities to go further ahead with both Sam Darlow and Josh Moody seeing efforts go close. However in the 75th minute central defender Cameron Shaw headed home a James Bergin corner to secure the points. Josh Moody almost added a 4th heading over from a cross delivered by Sports player coach Joe White. 

Westland Sports caused a few problems from set pieces during the half by found a stubborn Bournemouth defence difficult to breakdown. The win sees Bournemouth in 3rd place on 56 points, 8 points behind the leaders Dorchester Sports, but with 4 games in hand on them. 

Bournemouth – Ryan Knibbs, Jake Perch, Matt Ellis, Tommy White, Cameron Shaw, Taylor Edwards, Dan Edwards, Taylor Webb, Sam Darlow, Josh Moody, James Bergin

Substitutions – Joe White for Taylor Webb (75), Jamie Trimble for Josh Moody (76), Tom Beckett for Dan Edwards (82) Arche Southern for Josh Moody (84) 

Picture – Bournemouth Sports players congratulate Cameron Shaw on scoring the 3rd goal of the afternoon.