Jon Docker fires in a shot
DORCHESTER TOWN
1	Darren Behcet
2	Nathan Peprah Annan
3	Mark Jermyn
4	Mark Robinson
5	Alex Browne
6	Roy O'Brien
7	Charlie Henry		25
8	Jamie Gleeson
9	Jones Awuah
10	Jon Docker
11	Ivan Forbes		88
Substitutes
12	Elliot Bent		88
14	Gary Bowles
15	Hardy Pinto-Moreira		25
16	Tom Mitchell
17	Simon Evans
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FISHER ATHLETIC
21	Simon Overland
2	Simon Jackson
3	Nic Plumain
4	Gavin Dayes
5	Roumauld Bouadji
6	Kenny Beaney
7	Shaun Batt
8	Luke Hickie
17	Andre McCollin
10	Gavin Tomlin
11	Ross Gaynor
Substitutes
12	Gavin Heeroo
14	Theo Fairweather-Johnson
15	Jean Musunga
16	Lewis Tozer
18
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Referee
John Flynn (Calne, Wiltshire)
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Saturday 15th September 2007
		Dorchester Town	2
		Awuah 57, 66
		Fisher Athletic	1
		Tomlin 6

Awuah relieves Avenue

by Ky Capel

Dorchester Town finally broke their Avenue Stadium duck of the new campaign after a Jones Awuah brace helped the Magpies to a 2-1 win over Fisher Athletic.

After three defeats out of three on home turf in Blue Square South, the Ghanaian-born striker scored two in 10 second-half minutes to win his side their first Avenue points after an error by Mark Jermyn allowed the visitors to take the lead.

In a rather lacklustre first half the Magpies found themselves a goal down in disappointing fashion.

There appeared to be no danger when the ball found its way to left-back Jermyn inside his own half.

The 26-year-old then looked to keeper Darren Behcet but the pass was weak and it became a race between Fisher's ex-Weymouth trialist Gavin Tomlin and Behcet.

Unfortunately for the Magpies the former won that battle and nicked the ball past the latter to leave himself with an easy tap-in and raise the tension inside the Avenue after just six minutes.

The next 35 minutes were not the best as the home side struggled to get a foothold on the game.

And it took until the 42nd minute for Dorchester to finally come to life.

Jon Docker found Jones Awuah who's flick-on fell into the path of substitute Hardy Pinto-Moreira.

The Portuguese forward, who replaced Charlie Henry just before the half-hour mark after the club's leading scorer failed to recover from an early knock, nearly found the back of the net but his left-foot drive was parried by Simon Overland.

The Fish stopper then got up brilliantly to deny Awuah who followed up Pinto-Moreira's effort with a diving header.

The introduction of the big frontman made a huge difference as the hosts took control of proceedings from here on in.

Five minutes after the restart the home fans were shouting for a penalty when Pinto-Moreira's shot appeared to have struck an Athletic arm. Referee Flynn waved away the appeals.

And six minutes later the Magpies were level. Docker's free-kick was floated in from the left and helped on by skipper Alex Browne, then amid a melee of players Awuah got the final touch to take the ball past the outstretched Overland.

Shaun Brooks' side were in the ascendancy and, after another spot-kick claim was dismissed by the man in black, the county town side made their pressure count.

On 66 minutes Awuah held the ball up on half-way before finding Forbes on the right touchline, the Portuguese man looked towards his compatriot Pinto-Moreira, but cleverly realised he was in an offside position. Cue Awuah, whose darting run through the middle was picked out by Forbes, leaving the forward with a clear run on the Fisher goal.

The 23-year-old kept his cool before slotting the ball under the advancing Overland to the delight, and relief, of the Avenue faithful.

Docker went close minutes later but his shot was tipped over by Overland, while Browne and substitute Elliot Bent nearly profited from openings.

The Magpies though, saw the game out fairly comfortably with some resolute defending, notably a saving tackle by O'Brien with seven minutes to play to deny Andre McCollin a clean strike at Behcet.

The visitors were presented with two dead-ball situations in the same place with moments left, but poor strikes from McCollin only found the Dorchester wall.