FOOTBALL: Penryn get their own back on Bude

When the sides met earlier in the season, it was Town who gave Athletic a thumping with a 5-0 victory on November 29.

This has so far been Penryn’s only away defeat of the campaign and the team were still smarting from this heavy loss going into the return clash.

With this in mind, worries will have started to surface early on as the visitors came out with all guns blazing, looking every inch the side who beat Athletic last time round.

But after Penryn took a 37th minute lead, it deflated Town to the point where there was only going to be one winner.

Ryan Martt was putting in a harding working shift for the hosts and he started the move which led to the opener as his pass sent Luke Brabyn racing down the right flank.

He hit a cross into the penalty area which found Russell May, who then nodded the ball back to Scott Palmer with the striker firing a shot past Gary Dinshaw.

It should have been made 2-0 by the same player four minutes later, but somehow Palmer hit the ball wide of an open goal.

Athletic went into the second half and looked to finish the job off.

They all but sealed the victory in the 65th minute when Kevin Lawrence, pictured above, got onto a ball played into the box early by Dave Broglino.

Pressure was piled on by the hosts and it produced a third goal eight minutes later when Ollie Moody linked up well with substitute Tyler Cooke before sending the ball to Broglino to stroke home from 15 yards out.

Cooke went from creator to scorer in the 84th minute when his miss-timed effort managed to go between Dinshaw’s legs.

On Saturday, Athletic travel to second place St Dennis.

Athletic will head up there knowing they will be without striker David Leach after the 16-year-old suffered a broken leg in training, sidelining him for the rest of the season.

PENRYN: Symons, Blizzard, May, Martt, Oliver (c, Dunn 80), Winnan, Brabyn, Moody, Palmer (Cooke 62), Broglino, Lawrence.