Evo Stik Southern League West Division

Barnstaple Town................................. 0

Cirencester Town................................. 2

FIRST-HALF strikes from Ben Whitehead and Tommy Anderson earned Charlie Griffin’ s side the points in Devon, writes Dave Pyzer.

Earlier, Cirencester Town included new signing Will Tunnicliff.

Ciren hot-shot Whitehead opened the scoring when he latched onto a terrific pass from Aidan Bennett that curled into his path.

On the cusp of the break Tunnicliff moved the ball down the line to Bennett for Whitehead to pick out Forest Green loanee Anderson.

Cirencester came out of the blocks quickly after the break as Bennett crossed for Whitehead to clip an effort into the arms of Screech at the near post.

This was soon to be followed by the striker taking on three opponents as he dribbled to the side edge of the box where his cross was blocked. Bennett tried to latch onto the loose ball in a challenge with Screech and it broke to Alan Griffin and in the resulting scramble it went out of play.

Within a minute Whitehead was back again as he received the ball on the centre front edge of the home box, but as he pulled the trigger Screech advanced to block. The ball rebounded wide of Griffin who managed to send a left-footed effort over the bar.

The pressure continued as Albert fed Whitehead on the right side edge of the box, inside to Griffin, cross to Bennett, head on to Tommy Ouldridge who was bundled over for a corner kick to be awarded - defended.

Minutes later Ouldridge fed Anderson who attempted a chip from the right channel front edge of the home box that just cleared the top right corner of the goal.

Whilst Cirencester had started the half well Barnstaple still posed a threat and just after the mid-point of the half a free-kick from the right reached Tallan Mitchell and he played a volley pass towards the left front corner of the six- yard box where Billy Hopcroft darted forward to challenge Wieczorek who gathered at the second attempt.

In the final minute Hopcroft chased a ball over the top of the Cirencester backline but Wieczorek had seen the danger and raced out to win the challenge just outside his area.