BALTI SPORTS 2

SWANAGE & WAREHAM 4

BALTI Sports fell to a frustrating 4-2 defeat at home to Swanage & Wareham in a performance that manager Marco Nott described as “terrible”.

A hat-trick from Cameron Beard and a headed effort from Dave Best ensured a tough loss for the home side.

Swanage opened the scoring in the 15th minute through Beard after a defensive mistake allowed him to run through and fire home.

Oscar Preece levelled 10 minutes later, half volleying home his own rebounded effort.

Swanage struck late on in the half when a cross found Beard unmarked to slam home.

Beard wrapped up his hat-trick in the 70th minute when he ran one-on-one and rifled in.

Best then had a free header from a free-kick which he put into the net for the Swans, before Liam Taylor scored from a corner to reduce the deficit for Balti.

Nott said: “It is very frustrating because we were so good on Saturday, we played some great football and we said do the same and it was like a shadow of ourselves, we were terrible.”

Nott singled out Ryan Dovell for praise after the match, as he said: “He was the one player that just kept at his job and he is brilliant. He has been running the midfield for numbers of weeks now. He has been outstanding. He is just a model pro really, he did not chuck the towel in.”

Balti: A Nott, Lock (Taylor 75), Burton, Roberts, Taylor, Dovell, McClements (Pearce 55), Devaney, Preece, Lane, Andrews