Bromsgrove Rovers 2 Feckenham 4
AFTER their own embarassing cup defeat at the weekend, Feckenham covered themselves in glory in the Worcestershire Senior Urn last night.
The Valley tenants not only beat their illustrious opponents but savaged the fallen giants on their own patch and could have had more.
And it was the Millers' own Golden Balls himself - Brian Powell - who scored the pick of the bunch.
A minute after the restart a shaky Bromsgrove failed to clear their lines and a poor Morgan Brookes clearance fell to the Feckenham leading scorer on the left hand edge of the area.
The former Studley goal machine looked before curling a delightful dipping effort over the despairing Jim McGettrick and in off the crossbar.
It was the second part of a four minute brace for Powell who had calmly slotted home from the edge of the area before the break after Steve Cross had robbed Shaun Derry in the middle of the park.
The visitors had given their higher league opponents a warning of their intent in the second minute when Dean Meyrick got on the end of an inviting Powell cross to put Feckenham in front.
The goal sparked a response from the hosts in an all-action opening and Sam Bowen equalised after controlling a Liam O'Neil centre in the 19th minute, seconds after having an effort cleared off the line.
But Feckenham refused to capitulate and after Meyrick was inches from converting an Ian Edwards cross at the far stick, Cross restored their lead in the 32 minute with a 30 yard rocket across McGettrick.
Six minutes later and Rovers had clawed it back again when O'Neil clinically finished after a peach of a pass from Gary Hackett near the centre circle.
But then Powell took over and Feckenham surged forward with a Meyrick effort hacked off the line, Carl Fairhurst and Cross forcing good stops from the keeper and former County Sports star Fairhurst firing over after a determined run into the box.
Millers keeper Dave Inman played his part with an impressive save to thwart the prolific Sam Bowen in the box but the expected late show from the Alliance hopefuls never came and Feckenham eased into the third round.
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