Bridlington Town 2 v 3 Scarborough Athletic
By Alexander Fynn
Bridlington Town welcomed Scarborough Athletic to the Mounting systems stadium on Tuesday evening, as The Seadogs became acquainted to their temporary home for the upcoming National League North season, in the David Holland Memorial match.
The first half was fiercely contested by both sides with five of the four match goals being scored in the first 25 minutes, Harry Green for the visitors linked up with Rio Allan to give Boro an early lead.
Alex Markham found the equaliser from an Ahmed Salam corner and the youngster put in a thunderous header into the roof of the Scarborough net.
The Bridlington celebrations though were short-lived as moments later in almost identical fashion to Boros first goal Green set up Allan once again to restore the Seadogs lead.
Michael Coulson put the game back on level terms when Will Annan beat his man on the wing, he cut the ball back to Coulson and the number 10 fired the ball into the back of the net.
A lively first period ended with both sides looking equal.
However, the second period wasn’t as lively from a Bridlington perspective, Seadogs substitute Stephen Walker put Scarborough back in front when he was one on one with Jonathan Dash and he placed the ball into the bottom corner.
Mike Thompson rang the changes with Will Annan and Charlie Dunkerley coming off for Casey Stewart and the veteran, Pete Davidson.
Scarborough just kept troubling Bridlington when the forward fired a shot from the edge of the box, however the shot went rattling off the post.
Both sides made a plethora of changes in the second period for different tactics, despite the changes though Scarborough remained strong in attack and pinned the seasiders into their own half for long periods as the match ended 3-2 to Scarborough to see them retain the David Holland memorial trophy.
