Saturday 26th April 2008
Blue Square North
Leigh RMI 0 Blyth Spartans 2
Att: 238

Spartans completed their Blue Square North Campaign at already relegated Leigh RMI on Saturday.

Manager Harry Dunn decided to include those players who hadn’t played in the narrow defeat on penalties on Wednesday evening in the Northumberland Senior Cup final against Newcastle United Reserves.

The match itself was one usual for this stage of the season with neither side really on top.

But the Spartans took the lead after Michael Hedley was pulled down in the penalty area and Robert Dale converted the spot kick on 18 minutes.

Kenny Boyle linked up with the wandering Dale to set up Ged Dalton inside the area but he pulled his shot well wide of the goal.

On 52 minutes Dalton made amends for his earlier miss, this time getting on to a Steve Birks through pass before confidently slotting under Tim Dittmer in the home goal.

Alex Gildea tested the home keeper with a fine run and shot which keeper Dittmer pushed wide.

Spartans: - Adam Bartlett, Michael Hedley, Kenny Boyle, Peter Snowdon, Gareth Williams, Gary Brown, Alex Gildea, Chris McCabe (sub Steve Birks), Robert Dale, Andrew Johnson (sub Ben Christiansen), Ged Dalton (sub Martin Houlahan).
Subs (not used): Graham Fenton & Adrian Webster.