IT was Penistone Church who came out on top as they clashed with Stocksbridge Park Steels in the annual Purdie Cup.
Second half goals from Sam Scrivens and Ash Ellis steered Church to a 2-0 win against their higher-league rivals.
A crowd of 219 turned out to watch the game unfold and the deadlock was broken on 55 minutes through Scrivens and Ellis doubled the lead just six minutes later.
A total of £400 was raised for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Weston Park Hospital.
After the game, Church manager Ian Richards said:
I’m obviously pleased with the result tonight, everybody wants to win every game they play in and where there’s a cup at the end of it it’s really nice to see your captain lift that cup but we must remember its part of the bigger picture.
We purposely put these preseason fixtures together like we did, the last three were the more challenging, so we could really step up the intensity to make sure we’re ready on the fourth and throughout August but it’s nice to win against your local Evo-stick neighbours and it was really pleasing the way we did it with some good individual displays and a good team performance.
A lot of credit should go to Penistone and Stocksbridge club officials Dave Hampshire and Mick Grimmer who revived this charity cup competition.”
It’s nice that we got the win but that’s not the main thing in preseason there’s a lot more positives than that we have to enjoy these positives and move on to Saturday.”
Stocksbridge Park Steels manager Chris Hilton says he wants to bring two more players in yet with his new team still finding their feet.
Park Steels face a Sheffield Wednesday XI on Saturday August 4 with a 3pm kick off.
