Gillingham Town Reserves – Dorset Premier League

The latter stages of January saw the Reserves play Hamworthy Utd and Cranborne and come away with great 5-1 and 9-1 victories respectively. These were followed in February by another game against Hamworthy Utd and another victory, albeit only by a 1-0 scoreline this time. The Reserves then hosted Merley Cobham Sports in the semi-finals of the Dorset Premier League Cup and this exciting game saw the Reserves trailing 1-0 when they were awarded an 85^th minute penalty. Although the penalty was saved the game went into extra time after an 89^th minute equalising goal by Ollie Blackmore. The winning goal was scored by Darren Isaac in extra time to see the Reserves progress through to the final, a great feat in their first season in this League.

On Saturday 18 February the Reserves made the short journey to take on Blandford United coming away with a 3-2 victory, although they left it late again as they were losing 2-1 with just 6 minutes left. Then a goal by Ryan Schouten and a second by Elliot Bevis in the last minute saw them leave with all three points and rise to 7^th place in the table.

The last game of the month was on Saturday 25 February when the Reserves hosted North Dorset rivals Sherborne Town Reserves. Despite a bad start going a goal down and Sherborne missing a penalty, they got a victory with goals by Jack Baker and Elliot Bevis just before half time.

A great month for the Reserves with a League Cup semi final victory, but also three league wins which sees them finishing in 7^th place in the table.

Player of The Month went to goalkeeper Joshua Lucas.