Workington Reds Under-23s were presented with the Lancashire League (Western Division) championship ahead of their game at Lancaster City last night.
It’s been a splendid season for the team, racing to the title with a 100% record and added to with a 3-0 victyory at the Giant Axe.
They were off key in the opening 30 minutes but a goal just before, and again soon after the break put them in charge.
They were much the better side in the second-half and having now lifted the trophy, remained 100% in the process will want to retain that record with two games still to play.
City’s Blake Wordsworth had a goal disallowed for offside in the opening half an hour while Reds keeper Joe Rumney was called upon three times to make saves.
Reds took the lead, against the run of play, in the 32nd minute after Ted Thomson went past two defenders before laying the perfect pass for Leo Brennan to score from close in.
Thomson capped a fine personal performance by scoring the second four minutes into the second half.
Oscar Pickering whipped in a teasing cross from the left and Thomson timed his run to place the ball beyond the helpless City keeper, Cam Graham.
Reds cemented the victory with a fine third goal from a counter-attack after 79 minutes.
Elliot Lowrie delivered the best cross of the night from the right and Brennan met the ball and despatched it into the net in one sweet movement.
City finished strong in the search of a consolation goal but their best effort, from Wordsworth, was tipped over the bar by Rumney.
Workington: Rumney, Routledge, Bell, Pickering, Martin, Davidson, Tyson, Thomson, Brennan, White, Lowrie. Substitutes – Hambling, Handford, Pickering, Jackson (all used).
