Willington Boys: Willington Boys Under-16s maintained their two-point lead at the top of the Russell Foster Junior League first division with a 7-1 success over Washington Envelopes. The destination of the league title will be settled this Saturday when Willington and rivals South Shields Wanderers play their final games, although both teams are certain of promotion.

The Willington goals came from Martin Hopps (2), David Jackson (2), MoM Michael Abson., Daniel Lee and Lien Howe. "This is a remarkable achievement when you consider that at one time we were twelve points adrift," said Willington manager Robert Lee, "in the first half of the season we had a lot of injuries and sometimes had to play with just 11 men."

Willington Under-10s completed their season in the short-sided league by beating Fulwell Fitness 2-0 and Durham County Jets 2-0. Jordan Roberts and Willem Hunter scored in the first game, and Roberts go both goals in the second.

Earlier, the Willington Under-10s did well to finish as runners-up in an open seven-a-side competition at Blackpool.

Shildon Juniors

Shildon Juniors won the Russell Foster Under-10 Sunday League Cup Final with a 2-1 win at Sunderland Barnes Macs in a game that was a credit to the league.

Both sides played open attacking football although the game was competitive, good refereeing allowed the game to flow, resulting in no free kicks being awarded in the whole match.

Shildon, having the benefit of the wind in the first half, created most of the early chances with Joe Joyce attempting to get behind the Barnes defence from the keepers kicks. Chances were being created by both sides with Shildon steadily gaining the upper-hand as both midfields tried to control the game.

The opening goal of the game came after ten minutes, from a Shildon corner the ball was hacked clear by the Barnes defence and as it dropped Calum Hoggart hit the ball on the half volley and rifled it in from 20 yards to give Shildon a deserved lead. In the second half, Shildon increased their lead within a minute of the restart, good work down the right by Daniel Shoulder created an opportunity for Thomas Hallimond to hit a shot from just inside the box, which took a deflection off a defender leaving the Barnes goalkeeper wrong footed.

The Barnes right back made a valiant effort to clear the ball of the line only for it to hit the post and bounce back into the net. Shildon could have increased their lead from another corner when Stephen Kipling came in at the back post and hit a left foot shot, which came back off the post.

With less than ten minutes left Barnes Macs made a double substitution, this gave them renewed vigour. The fresh legs started to stretch the Shildon defence, but with Ben Trotter tackling strongly, every attack broke down around the Shildon area. With less than five minutes left Barnes deservedly pulled a goal back, this gave them fresh hope and they started to throw everything at the Shildon goal. In the last minute the Barnes right-winger fired into the top right hand corner of the Shildon goal causing the Barnes supporters and players to jump in celebration of an equaliser only for Mathew Brown the Shildon goalkeeper to make the save of the match by throwing himself across his goal to fingertip the ball over the bar. At the final whistle the Shildon players started their celebrations.

Spennymoor Boys

Spennymoor Boys Under-13s completed a memorable season by finishing as Russell Foster Division Two Champions.

Needing to avoid defeat in their final game against Redhouse they went better by defeating their stubborn opponents 3-2. Jason White completed a fantastic season with two well taken goals and Ross Molloy rounded off his own successful campaign with a stunning winner. All congratulations go to the following players for their achievements throughout the season: Daniel Burnage, Mark Burnage, Nick Cawood, Chris Haigh, Daryl Howard, Craig Jackson, Richard McCreaddie, Ross Molloy, Richard O'Brien, David Peacock, Kyle Redfern, Nathan Stockill, Craig Thompson, Jason White and Matthew Whittle.

Richmond Town

Last weekend saw Richmond Town Football club victorious at the Teesside League Cup Finals Day. Both the Under-14s and Under-15s won their respective finals beating first division opposition.

Richmond Under-15s played Marton and won 2-1. It was a close game played in a good spirit. Richmond took the lead midway through the first half with a strongly shot free kick from Ryan Crowther. Charlie Cox put Richmond further ahead in the second half. Marton pulled one back with ten minutes to go but Richmond held on to win 2-1. Peter Akers of Richmond was named man of the match with a superb defensive performance which capped a superb all round team performance from Richmond.

Richmond Under-14s brought back their first ever piece of silverware last Sunday after they won the Teesside League Challenge Cup in a 4-2 come back win over South Bank Rangers. It started well with an opener from Jonathan Black but the goal was cancelled out not long after and Richmond went into the break 2-1 down. The match remained deadlocked until substitutes Jonathan Moss and Ben Prosser came on and the team benefited from fresh legs on the pitch.

With five minutes to go Jason Flannery scored a scrappy equaliser and then a couple of minutes later he scored his second to clinch the lead. In the dying seconds of the game Josh Wooff won a penalty which Jason Flannery converted to give him a hat trick in five minutes. After only ever being runners up before Richmond Under-14s finally have their name on a cup.

Darlington Spraire Lads

ThE Under-14s completed their league season unbeaten with a 5-1 victory over ASW Catterick, the goals coming from Michael Ward (2) and a hat-trick from Craig Lavelle. Man of the match went to Dale Elgie. The Under-9s were at home to Aycliffe in the first leg of the league play offs. These play-offs are played for by the top two in each division. Spraire started strong and were rewarded with Zac Tervit scored. Aycliffe kept the score at 1-0 until Aycliffe broke to score 1-1. In the friendly Spraire won 1-0 with a goal from Danny Stead.