Edgware Town 7 Leighton Town 1

Ryman League Div Three

Ashley Leenders was the star of Edgware's runaway win on Tuesday, completing a nine-minute hat-trick and giving the Wares a 3-0 lead after 15 minutes.

Leenders struck after six minutes, firing a 25-yard volley from Steve Flain's neat flick.

He followed that with two goals in a minute. In the 14th minute, he seized on a through ball from Ryan Harris, and shot past the keeper. Then he burst inside from the left and provided a clinical finish.

Though Leighton replied through Redsull, Steve Flain restored Edgware's three-goal lead on the stroke of half-time. Leenders was forced to retire at half-time with a recurrence of a groin problem that could rule him out of Saturday's visit to Ware.

Paul Johnson, replacing Leenders at half-time, soon made it 5-0. Malcolm Allen hit the sixth on the hour, and proved the pass for Harris (80mins) to complete the rout.

EDGWARE TOWN: Cheng, Mitchell, Kennedy, Campbell, Tilbury,Tarrant, (Journet 65) Allen, Harding (Warner 61), Leenders (Johnson 45), Harris, Flain.

Wingate and Finchley went out of the London Senior Cup in a 3-0 defeat by Metropolitan Police at Imber Court.

November 14, 2001 18:01