North Riding Senior Cup 1st Round

27th October 2004

Attendance - 441

Whitby Town- Escritt, Atkinson, Veart, Farthing, Williams, Campbell P, Ormerod, Scaife, Robinson, Johnson, Nicholson. Subs Gildea L (68), Campbell D, McTiernan, Obern (88)

Fishburn Park - Scales, Locker, Reed, Raw, Cleever, Price, Hall, Young, Marson, Watson, Found. Subs Braithwaite, Simpson, Ward, Tose, Gregson

Report - by Andrew Snaith - The first-ever competitive Whitby derby ended in penalty heartbreak for Fishburn Park at the Turnbull Ground.
Dave Logan's Whitby Town were near full-strength while Fishburn's side boasted an entirely Whitby-based line-up.
Both sides struggled in the typical North Sea gale and Nicholson had an early effort parried by Scales and Johnson's follow-up was blocked.
An unmarked Campbell then headed wide from the resulting corner and saw a better effort clutched by Scales from Ormerod's cross.
At the other end, Escritt dealt with a few long-range efforts before Found's corner was headed goalwards by Duncan Marson and nodded off his own line by Craig Veart. Logan clearly read the riot act to his players at the interval who responded straight away.
A ferocious 20-yard Scaife drive flew just over and Campbell's header from Veart's corner was off target.
Fishburn hit on the break and came close when Escritt was wrong-footed by John Watson whose drive hit the side-netting.
Nicholson and Johnson both came close before it was Fishburn's turn to head off their line when Andy Raw cleared from Nicholson.
Park nearly scored on 76 minutes when Atkinson miscontrolled a long ball and Watson stole in but Escritt made the save.
After a clash that left both Nicholson and Raw requiring treatment for head injuries, Scales did well to push away Veart's goalbound free-kick at the last second.
And five minutes later Scaife's perfectly-weighted through ball released Johnson whose point-blank drive was brilliantly saved.
Chances came and went in extra-time with Scales in outstanding form in front of the 441-strong crowd, the highest of the season.
So it went to penalties where Obern, Marson and Veart all found the net before Fishburn's Adam Hall struck the crossbar.
Escritt saw his kick saved by his opposite number before Watson, Williams and Locker converted before Scales saved from Gildea.
Simpson stepped up to win the match for Park but Escritt saved.
Nicholson then found the back of the net and Braithwaite blazed over to seal a fortunate win for Whitby.