Corsham Town Res had defeated Royal Wootton Bassett Town at their place on the opening day of the season. When the two sides met again on Saturday Corsham were looking to defend an unbeaten home record which had seen them go nine games unbeaten at the Southbank. They suffered an early setback when Nick Mason put Royal Wootton Bassett Town in front on two minutes when a corner somehow eluded the Corsham defence and found Mason at the far post who slotted it home. Zac Hillier went close on 20 minutes when he slid in to meet a cross only to see it go agonisingly over the bar. He was not to be denied a minute later however when he met a superb cross from Ross Lye to slide in to net the equaliser. Steve Yeardley restored Royal Wootton Bassett Town's lead just after the half hour mark when he scored following a neat passing interchange with Mani Roper. Corsham restored parity again eight minutes from the break when the Bassett keeper Ross Milloy brought down a Corsham player in the box. The keeper nearly made amends when he guessed which way Ross Lye's penalty was going but the penalty was hit without enough power that he was unable to keep it out. It was Corsham who came out of the blocks quicker after the break and within two minutes of the restart they were ahead for the first time in the match when Lye headed in unmarked from a corner for his second of the game. Moments later Royal Wootton Bassett came close to levelling matters when a cross-come-shot from Steve Yeardley came back off the bar. However, it was Corsham who looked the more likely to score again with Dan Lardner causing the visitors defence problems all afternoon. Lardner went close on 70 minutes when he hit the bar with a powerful shot and went close again when he was denied by the Royal Wootton Bassett keeper Milloy. Next it was Corsham keeper Joe King who was called into action as he saved superbly from Yeardley to deny the visitors an equaliser. Despite the visitors pushing hard for that equaliser in the closing stages Corsham hung on to take all three points and extend that unbeaten home record to ten games.

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