The delayed North Hants Chris Price Cup tie between Eastrop Eagles and Andover Central was played on Sunday, writes Tony Spencer, and resulted in a 5-2 win for Eastrop Eagles, their fourth win in a row.

Republic of Chineham beat South Wonston Swifts 5-1 in their Andover Presidents Cup tie, while Basingstoke Hammers were awarded the tie against no-show visitors AFC Tukkers.

New Park Rangers, however, narrowly went down 2-3 to visitors Tidworth Town Youth.

North Warnborough The Anchor chalked up the best result in the Bernard Cornish Cup, scoring 12 goals without reply against visitors Riverdene Rovers.

Herriard Sports beat Westside Athletic 5-1 in the Bernard Cornish Cup only a week after the  North Hants cup tie between the same teams which resulted in Westside coming out the winners.

Mistakes from Oakridge B cost them dearly as they went down 2-5 to New Park Rangers Reserves. It was a good game of football and the away team did deserve their win. Laith Aldoori, Danny Costen with a brace, Jack MacKinnon and Tyrell Reid scored for New Park Rangers Reserves.

Hartley Sunday eased into the next round of the Eric Holbrook Junior Cup with a 0-3 win at Miners Arms. Goals from Elliot Miles-Kirkham on 27 mins, Carl Allwork on 43 mins, and Matthew Lewis round off the victory 4 mins from time.

In Division 2 league action White Ash Rovers beat Republic of Chineham Reserves 6-1, ending the visitors’ monumental run of seven consecutive wins.

Ali Nije netted for Basingstoke Casuals as they earned a 1-1 draw, while Henry Craven teplied for visitors Sherborne St John, which was Sherborne’s first point dropped in their Division 3 campaign.

Cranbourne Rangers were beaten 0-2 by Soldiers Return, with Ryan Light and Harvey West doing the damage.

Newchester banged 11 goals without reply past Stratton Park Rangers’ defence, who have yet to get off the mark in the league.

Despite a Hayden Johnson strike, AFC Berg suffered their first Division 4 league defeat, beaten 1-5 by Brookvale United.

Nine goals were scored in the Ambient v Basingstoke Boars match. It was an end-to-end tightly contested match, won the end 5-4 by Ambient. Boars took the lead through a drilled tight angled finish from Lee Cobern 10 mins in. Both teams looked evenly matched, Ambient edging the possession while Boars threatened on the break. With 20 minutes gone Ed Tong bundled home a header from a corner to make it 0-2. Ambient started to apply pressure and smashed home an impressive volley, so 1-2 at half-time. Continuing in the same vein, Raz Roman capitalised on a goalkeeping error and executed a composed lob from 35 yards on 64 mins, 1-3. Ambient created chances and powered a free kick into the corner to close the gap to 2-3. On the counter, Roman and Cobern responded, sending the ball to Alex Hare, whose pace saw him beat the keeper to the ball and tap home, 2-4 on 72 mins. Ambient weren’t finished though, they pushed back relentlessly and, striking three comeback goals in the last 15 minutes, saw them snatch victory from the jaws of defeat as 5-4 winners. Tyler Andrews, Matthew Kempson, Alex McKenna, Mark West and Joe Marsh netted for triumphant Ambient.