Bradford Moor YSA's great season continued when they booked a quarter-final place in the Grattan League Cup after a 5-0 third round win over Smiling Mule.

Their opponents will be Premier Division leaders Fagley.

It was another fine display by Bradford Moor, especially in view of the fact that they were without four regular players and had to draft in a new defence that had never played together before.

After a slow and unsteady start, Muzafar Iqbal opened the scoring for Bradford Moor and Tariq Hussain made it 2-0 by half time.

It was all Bradford Moor in the second half, however, with Nasser Ahmed and Mohammed Alyas adding further goals and Hussain scoring his second to complete a comfortable win.

In the Premier Division, second placed Mail Coach consolidated their position with a 5-2 win at Brannigans, but they found it hard going in the first half.

Mail Coach led 1-0 at half time before Wayne Payton and Lee Cooper put Brannigans 2-1 in front, but they then over-ran the home side.

Fagley had an easy 9-2 win over Lexicon. Man of the match Dave Philips scored two goals, Paul Hickey also scored two and Allan Morley, Mark Saunders, Andrew Sutcliffe and Steve Bromley scored one each, while new signing 43-year-old Ian Carr also scored on his debut.

In the First Division, second placed Bierley United went top after winning 3-1 at East Bowling. For 15 minutes it was end to end with some outstanding football from both sides, but Bowling's problems started when Paul Jarmer was sent off.

At first they did well to overcome the handicap of playing with ten men, but Bierley went 2-0 ahead through Mark Warren and Luke Wilcock

Bierley were on top in the second half, but Bowling made a significant change by moving Paul Meir up front and it paid off after two minutes when he pulled a goal back.

Bierley then turned up the pressure and were rewarded when Warren added his second goal to seal their victory.

Second placed Strachans travelled to One In Twelve in a top of the table clash and won 4-3.

The home side were 1-0 up after ten minutes through an own goal, but Strachans were soon level.

Kevin Poppleton restored One in Twelve's lead after a mistake by the goalkeeper. Strachans equalised following another goalkeeping error before Craig Williams gave One in Twelve a 3-2 half time lead with a spectacular volley.

Strachans equalised with a scrappy goal 15 minutes from the end and scored their winner ten minutes later when the One in Twelve failed to clear a long throw.

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