Yachtsmen in a sentence

Moving to midweek action and the Yachtsmen will travel to Laverstock & Ford, near Salisbury in Wiltshire, on Tuesday.

The Yachtsmen’s last outing, also on December 30, saw them travel across the Solent and claim all three points in a 2-1 win away at Hamble.

After junior Curan Bassingthwaite converted for the Rams, to MacDonald’s left, Dos Santos scored on a similar shot for the Yachtsmen.

Then, at the other end, a shot from Gorham junior Colin Albert was ruled to have hit a Yachtsmen defender’s hand in the box and the Rams earned a penalty kick, which most on hand expected would bring an end to the festivities.

The Yachtsmen had a 3-1 edge in shots on frame and a 5-1 advantage in corners, but the first half play wasn’t as lopsided as the score would have suggested.

The Yachtsmen swept two games from Yarmouth this fall, perhaps the final countable contests between the programs for quite some time, and improved to 5-0-1 on the year, dropping the Clippers to 4-2 in the process.

With 12:10 remaining, off a Yachtsmen corner kick, senior Sam Gearan headed the ball wide.

Greely beat the Yachtsmen in the regular season meeting, 51-40, Dec. 21 in Falmouth.

In the loss to the Red Riots, Manganello had 14 points and Jack Bryant added 13. The Yachtsmen were at Marshwood Tuesday, visit Bonny Eagle Friday and play at Westbrook Tuesday of next week.

The Yachtsmen got off to a fast start when junior Nik Hester sank a 3-pointer 17 seconds in.

There is no resident staff at Malden, however, and occasional visits by foreign yachtsmen and fishermen cannot be monitored from Kiritimati.