WOODLEY United exited the Berks & Bucks Senior Cup at the first hurdle after a lacklustre 1-0 defeat at home to Wycombe Wanderers.

The hosts elected to kick into the low sun in the first half, but recorded only one shot at goal and that was Amie Benton’s 24th-minute shot into the side netting.

Shortly after the match kicked off Rosie Page-Smith saw her free-kick hit the visitors’ wall, while Wycombe put a free-kick wide five minutes before the half-time break.

This was followed when Ellen Surtees’ free-kick was headed away for a corner.

The second half saw Page-Smith blocked when one-on-one with Wycombe’s keeper Amy Batkin, while United’s custodian denied Chante Inniss in similar fashion a minute later.

Thereafter the best chances teams had of scoring were from free-kicks which were poorly executed.

The game’s solitary goal came in the 80th minute when a cross from the right was allowed to travel through United’s penalty area to be collected on the left and passed to centre back Charlotte Bagshaw to fire home from 20 yards in a passage of play which was out of keeping with the rest of the game.

Woodley’s best chance to level came in the third minute of added time when Maddie Sawyer’ long-range effort was caught by Batkin on her goal line.

  • BARTON Rovers Ladies reached the quarter-finals of the Berks & Bucks Senior Cup with a 6-2 win against Wargrave.

Gemma Sims completed her hat-trick before half-time but then, after a nasty clash with a Wargrave defender, left the field during the second half on her way to hospital.

After a tight first half when Wargrave replied with two goals, Rovers went in at the break 4-2 up.

However, Rovers dominated the second half, where Wargrave rarely left their own half and despite being down to 10 having lost Sims, Rovers added two more to their tally through Cheryl Williams and Phoebe Cole.

In the Junior Cup, Katy Cresswell scored a consolation for Barton Rovers Royals, but they were crushed 12-1 by Binfield after having to play with nine for the majority of the game due to two early injuries.

  • NEWBURY Ladies were obliterated 9-0 by Southampton in their Southern Region Premier Division clash on Sunday.

However, braces from Kendall Gilmour and Maria Rodrigues gave Newbury Development a 4-0 win at Stanford in the Berks & Bucks Junior Cup. Gilmour and Lauren Sheldon shared player-of-the-match homours.