Chester-le-Street: The Chester-le-Street promotion bandwagon rolled west to Carlisle for what many thought would be their toughest test yet in the Northern Regional Women's League Division One.

The match was a thoroughly entertaining game with both sides playing excellent football.

Laura Gibbon put Chester ahead, following up after her initial shot was saved. Carlisle levelled from the spot, only for Rae Taylor to hit a spectacular 30 yard free kick past a helpless Carlisle keeper.

Captain Vikki Ryder gave the Cestrians a two-goal cushion at half time, playing neat one two's before chipping the keeper.

The second half saw more flowing football from both sides, but it was Chester-le-Street's 15-year-old winger Rachel Weightman who scored from 20 yards to make it 4-1. Just to prove it was no fluke she did it again to make the final score 5-1 and preserve the 100 per cent record.

Durham County Council Girls Mini League

The third weekend of the newly-formed League saw East Durham Cadets maintain their 100 per cent record in the Under-12s section with a fine 4-2 victory over previously unbeaten Boldon in their top of the table clash.

Goals from Stephanie Neil and Stephanie Shaw gave Boldon a 2-1 half time lead, but East Durham hit back in the second half to run out winners with goals from Simone Laverick, Claire Daniels and Jade Pye (2).

Cramlington A maintained their 100 per cent record in the Under-14s league with a 8-0 victory over Cramlington B with Ashley Betts scoring four and Sam Walton, Laura Smith, Claire Moore, Amber Pugh netting the others.

Rutherford turned in an excellent performance,in the Under-16s, beating table toppers Boldon 6-0 thanks to strikes from Hannah Clayton (4) and Toni Spirs (2).

Newcastle Under-10s remained unbeaten with comfortable victories over Wearmouth and Consett Badgers. Stacey Rush notched five goals overall and Sarah Burns scoring a hat trick against Consett.

RESULTS: Saturday, October 18: Under-16s: Boldon 0 Rutherford 6; Darlington Spraire Lasses 0 Consett Badgers 9; Under 14s: South Durham Royals 6 Consett Badgers 0; Cramlington Jun. B 8 Cramlington Jun. A 8.

Under-12s: South Durham Royals 7 Trimdon 0; Cleveland Hall 'A' 3 Consett Badgers 0; Cleveland Hall 'B' 10 Langley Park 0; Consett Blackfyne 1 North Shields 0; East Durham Cadets 4 Boldon 2; Trimdon 2 Cleveland Hall 'A' 1; Consett Badgers 0 East Durham Cadets 15;Langley Park 0 South Durham Royals 10;North Shields 0 Cleveland Hall 'B' 6; Boldon 0 Consett Blackfyne 1

Under-10s: Blyth 4 North Hields 2; Boldon 8 Cleveland Hall 'B' 0; Cleveland Hall 'A' 7 Consett Badgers 0; Langley Park 0 Lumley 10; M'brough 10 Darlington Spraire Lasses 1; Newcastle 10 Wearmouth 0; North Shields 10 Langley Park 0; Cleveland Hall 'B' 0 M'brough 10; Consett Badgers 0 Newcastle 10; Lumley 10 Cleveland Hall 'A' 0; D'ton Spraire Lasses 2 Boldon 10; Wearmouth 0 Blyth 9.

Spraire Lasses

Aearly goal from Susan Page set up Blyth for a 1-0 victory against Spraire Lasses. Rachel Wilson for Blyth and Katie McTague for Spraire won the girl of the match awards.

Joanna Dinsdale and Laura Spence combated the early attacks from Blyth helped by hard tackling from Lauren Claxton who won the manager's merit award for the second time.

Captain Rachel McKnight rallied her troops by making several excellent runs down the wing. Hannah Marshall, Jordan Atkinson and Laura Gowling came close to scoring for Spraire, but were thwarted by goalkeeper Catherine Clough.

Helen McTague and Sophie Lineton kept the score to 1-0 holding firm in defence.

An exciting finish saw a penalty miss and the ball missing both post and bar by inches from Spraire Lasses. This was the first occasion in three seasons that Spraire have failed to score in consecutive weeks.

Young referee Mark Serginson had a fine debut game.