Town hit 5

Grantham Town Youth teams under 18’s and under 15’s were set to play Maidstone United.  Their youth community development office and under 15’s manager is ex Gingerbread player Adrian Smith.   Unfortunately Maidstone’s under 18’s, who spent last week away in Sweden, only had 8 fit players, so they did not travel.  The under 15’s brought a good size squad on the 300 mile round trip,  but they were over run in the early stages of the match as Grantham worked hard and pushed forward when ever possible.  Maidstone did break forward early and had a 1 on 1 with the Town’s Keeper.  But  Jordan Baker saved well.  Town opened the scoring after 10 minutes when Luke Bridger crossed from the left for James Porter to slip a pass in to Patrick Reading, who turned his marker on the edge of the box and smashed the ball home.    Minutes later it was 2-0 as Alex Walker feed Patrick Reading who’s cross found James Porter, who steered the ball home.  Toward the end of the first half town make 9 changes, but they continued to dominate the play.  The second half saw town race into a 4-0 lead Firstly George Sheeny’s pin point pass split the Maidstone defence and Ben Blake’s cross found Adam Kwiatkowski who slotted the ball home for the young gingerbreads 3rd.  The 4^th came from Patrick Reading, who broke free and fired in from a tight angle.   Towns 2^nd Keeper Sam Mayfield pulled off a good save to frustrate Maidstone and Grantham’s defence looked solid through out.  Town rapped up the scoring when Harry Stannard poked the ball home from a corner.