Stourport Swifts 1, Coleshill Town 2

LEWIS Pountney scored his third goal in four games but it wasn’t enough to stop Stourport from suffering a narrow defeat at the hands of their Warwickshire visitors on Saturday.

Swifts went into the game looking to extend their unbeaten run to six games and they started the better with Pountney and John Griffin going close early on before Pountney hit a 20-yard volley that skimmed the roof of the Coleshill target.

On 20 minutes, the home side again went close when an Ashley Parsons-Smith corner was headed back into the mix by Michael Briscoe but Jamie Willets’ volley was turned over the bar by Town keeper Paul Hathaway.

After being forced to defend for much of the opening half-hour, it was the visitors who took the lead on 31 minutes when some sloppy defending allowed Chris Lloyd to score.

Swifts levelled ten minutes into the second half when Parsons-Smith picked out Pountney with his free-kick and the forward headed home.

But it wasn’t to be Stourport’s day as Matt Brown restored Coleshill’s lead with a header from a Leon Weller cross on 64 minutes.

There were late appeals for a penalty from the home side when the ball appeared to strike an arm but it was the visitors who held on for the win.

Swifts: Hawker 6, Jones 7, Parker 6, Briscoe 6, Willets 6, Walker 7, DINSLEY 8 (Hurrell 73), Parsons-Smith 7, Pountney 7 (Morrison 77), Griffin 6 (Morris 77), Hyde 7. Sub (not used): Curtis