FRIENDLY
January 21, 2023
Carlton Town gave themselves a confidence boost with a 4-0 friendly win at Eastwood Community.
Both sides saw their scheduled league games fall victim to frozen pitches in the morning so after a couple of phone calls a friendly was arranged on Eastwood’s artificial pitch. There was a first appearance for recent Carlton signing Jude Brittain while two of the Carlton Town squad, Louis Czerwak and Ryan Tait, featured for the Red Badgers.
After an even opening period Jonny White put the Millers ahead on 37 minutes with a superb strike. Lewis Durow did well down the left before feeding Tyler Blake. He squared to White who hit a left foot drive into the top corner from 20 yards.
Five minutes later Blake doubled Carlton’s lead when he ran onto a Nat Watson through ball and slotted the ball between the goalkeeper’s legs and into the net.
Richard Stainsby was called on to make one decent save but the Carlton defence generally kept Eastwood at bay.
In the second half the Millers were in complete control. Alex Howes extended the lead with 14 minutes remaining when he rifled into the corner of the net from the right hand side of the penalty area.
Six minutes from time Khyle Sargent wrapped up the win when he followed up his own shot that had hit the post to tap in.
Carlton Town: R Stainsby, J White (D Freeman 46), L Durow (N Hylton 46), L Gorman, D Brown, J Brittain (J Holmes 46), N Watson, K Dixon (K Sargent 46), B Wells (K Dixon 62), T Blake (K Tomlin 73), K Tomlin (A Howes 46).
Goals: J White 37, T Blake 42, A Howes 76, K Sargent 84
