East End fightback in Cup: With the division reduced to nine teams due to resignations at the begining of the season, the Darlington and Stockton Times Cup games took place on Sunday with the preliminary round pairing East End WMC and Nestfield WMC together for the right to meet Spraire in the first round proper.

This game produced a classic game of two halves with Nestfield taking a 2-0 lead into the break with goals from Adi Weston and Lee Jenkinson, only for East End to hit back with three in the second half through Chris Scott, Neil Jackson and the winner coming from Steve Johnson.

In the first round Hurworth Albion travelled to meet AFC Brinkburn. Two goals for the home side by Chris Clack and Anthony Thorns were not enough to stop to the visitors progressing through to the next round with Paul Geddis finding the net and two goals for man of the match Darren Tate.

In a hard fought game Shuttle and Loom opened the scoring midway through the first half away to Brinkburn Wanderers through Barry Raper after a mix up in the Wanderers defence.

Brinkburn responded with in ten minutes with a Mick Meredith equaliser taking the teams into the break level at 1-1. The second half opened with bothteams playing attacking football and the Shuttle again took the led with a fine effort from Chris Airey. But the Wanderers came back again and more confusion in the Shuttle defence let in Meredith to double his tally. The home side sensed victory and further efforts from Chris Wardell, Martin Allison and Steve Charlton all came close to sealing the win. The game went into extra time and the golden goal came for the Wanderers after only three minutes when Richard Parsons finished superbly with a left foot effort to send them through to the next round.

Newton Aycliffe Sports Club hit six goals against Killinghall Arms to take them through with Karl Black finding the net four times and a goal each for Wayne Anderson and Craig Clark, with a Phil Reynold consolation goal for the visitors.