Nodley Wright, Freelance Reporter

Village United yesterday gave themselves a 40th anniversary present when they recorded their fourth win of the season, a 3-0 victory over Boys' Town at the Elleston Wakeland Centre, but remained rooted at the bottom of the table with 19 points, two behind August Town.

Captain Troy Smith opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the 44th minute. Omar Allen added a second in the 59th and Fabian Dawkins sealed the victory in the 86th.

"I guess the anniversary is one of the reasons that motivated us to win. I also asked them to take the spirit of the Waterbouse game into this one.

"If they brought that into this game I felt that there was no way we could have lost. I have maintained that we are down but we are not out and if we continue to play this type of game for the rest of the season there is no way we can not get out of the relegation," an elated Paul 'Tegat' Davis said at the end of the game.

Boys' Town's Andrew Price was of the view that fatigue caught up with his team.

"We looked a bit jaded playing four games in seven days. That took its toll. We played a game on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and today again," said Price.

Jaded

"We were jaded, lethargic and basically we were out-hustled by a Village team which wanted the three points, I cannot take anything away from what Village did today, they really played a very good game," he added.

The home team started the stronger of the two teams, but good goalkeeping by Kirk Porter and faulty shooting kept the game level until Cleveland Hibbert handled Devron Clarke's cross, leaving referee Recardo Sailsman with no choice but to award a penalty.

Boys' Town had a chance to score in the 56th minute when a direct free kick by George Vernal was beaten away by goalkeeper Ryan Cooper.

Boys' Town made the same double change which spurred them on to their victory over Seba United on Thursday. They introduced Renae Lloyd and Denzil Watson but they failed to have a similar effect. The only change to the game was Village extending their lead in the 59th minute.

A cross came over from the left side and Allen controlled the ball inside the 18-yard box, picked his spot and shot across Porter who had no chance. Porter was left exposed by his defense, which stood around waiting for an off-side call. Both Allen and Dawkins were to miss a number of other chances before the latter tapped home a Smith corner at the far post in the 86th minute to wrap up the win.

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Troy Smith 44th (pen)

Omar Allen 59th

Fabian Dawkins 86th

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