WELLINGTON 0

BRIDPORT 3

BRIDPORT comfortably saw off Wellington thanks to a brace from Oscar Latas and a solitary goal from Leighton Thomas in the FA Cup extra preliminary round.

Bridport started well and were having a lot of space to attack down the flanks, with Lee Sweet doing well early on and creating chances.

Braeden Symes could not quite get on the end of a couple of crosses in an attacking start for the Bees.

Latas opened the scoring on 25 minutes, when Richard Hebditch took a short corner to Sweet who crossed in for Latas to glance into the far corner.

The Bees were comfortable and dealt with a Wellington free-kick when Jason Hutchings dived well to save.

Bridport went in at the break 1-0 up and were told by Bees boss Adam Fricker to keep doing what they were doing for the second 45 minutes.

The players followed the manager’s words and Thomas early on crashed a 25-yard shot against the bar.

They then forced a couple of good saves from the Wellington keeper before the second goal came after 70 minutes.

Thomas managed to hold off his man when the ball was played into the box and he slotted calmly into the net.

The last goal then came after 80 minutes to seal the success for Bridport.

Some great play in the midfield saw a great through-ball played by Dan Peach which Latas got on the end of and fired in from a narrow angle for his brace.

Fricker said: “We played some really good stuff to be fair and thoroughly deserved the win. We played some really really good football which was really pleasing and we had some big key players out missing which was even more so satisfying because the lads stepped up to the plate.

“Lee, Leighton, Richard and Andy Martin are players that have basically pretty much missed all of pre-season for us.

“They are still finding their match fitness but they have all played in all of the games and I think it proved against Wellington that their levels of fitness are getting up to the levels to put in the performances.”

Bees: Hutchings, Barfoot (Wood 72), Andrews, Martin, Sweet, Regan, Symes, Peach, Latas, Hebditch (Wheedon 80), Thomas. Subs not used: Smith