Adders extended their unbeaten run to ten games with a 3-1 win over Pershore Town. Goals from Luke Shorthouse (pen), Ryan Quinn and Alan Miller turned a 1-0 deficit into three points, although at times they made heavy weather of a Pershore side who have now lost their last seven games.

Ivor Green made an initial two changes to the starting line-up with new boy Ryan Quinn and Mitch Thomson replacing Josh Willis and Alex Naughton, but Darren Eggleton broke down in the warm up with a neck injury and he was replaced by Mark Williams.

Adders came flying out of the blocks with Ryan Quinn, Kyle Baxter and Mitch Thomson prominent in everything they did.
Thomson had the first chance of the game in 6th minute when a long ball from McNulty was superbly controlled by skipper Baxter who in turn found Thomson who's shot from a narrow angle grazed the bar.
Half chances for Shorthouse and Quinn followed but neither managed to trouble Wilcox in the Pershore goal.
In the 10th minute Quinn again probed on the left hand side of penalty area, his pass inside found Thomson whos shot from 8 yards was smothered by Wilcox.

A quarter of an hour in the first goal arrived......unbelievably it was the visitors who got it, with Adders pushing forward a loose ball broke to Wilson in the centre circle and from his pin-point ball Mitch Butterworth ran away from the Adders back-line and slipped the ball wide of McNulty.

Adders were probably a little guilty of over playing at this point, and although they were dominating possession they were struggling to break down the visitors who were comfortable with ten men behind the ball.

In the 25th minute however Adders forced a corner on right and from Baxters' flag kick Pershore's captain Webb inexplicably handled the ball in the box when under no pressure giving referee Cox no option but to point to the spot.
With no Alex Naughton on the field it was left to Luke Shorthouse to step up and blast the ball beyond the left hand of Wilcox to bring Adders level.

Stallard for Pershore and Thomson for Adders exchanged headed chances before the break, but the Adders man had an even better chance in first half injury time as he was put clear by Baxter, but as he looked as if he was going to put his side ahead at the interval he lifted his shot high and wide.

Half-Time: 1-1

The second period almost exclusively belonged to the Adders, two minutes in Baxters' short corner was collected by Quinn and as he drove into the box he flashed his shot across the face of goal.
Ten minutes later his luck changed, but there was nothing lucky about it.......a quick throw-in on the left by Rowe was flicked into Quinns' path by Thomson and the Adders new-boy beat his man before unleashing an unstoppable shot from 20 yards that left Wilcox grasping thin air.

Adders should have wrapped the game up on the hour mark, Danny Harris was sent tumbling in the box, referee Cox pointed to the spot for a second time, but this time the outcome was very different, up stepped Luke Shorthouse again, he put his well struck shot to Wilcox's left again, but the Pershore keeper guessed right and pulled off a tremendous save.

With a quarter of the game to go Adders seemed to move up a gear, Miller and Shorthouse played a sharp one-two on the right hand side, and from the latters cross goalscorer Quinn nearly doubled his tally, but his shot went narrowly wide.

Next it was substitute Alan Millers' turn as he latched onto a flick on by Shorthouse but could only hit Wilcox with his finish and as the ball spun into the air his follow up hit the side netting.

At the other end lightning nearly struck twice as with their first real chance of the second half Pershore substitute Lane found himself bearing down on McNulty but the Adders stopper made a great block to keep his side infront.

Alan Miller finally got the goal he was looking for on his return from injury in the 92nd minute, when he was played in by the impressive Williams and lifted the ball over Wilcox into the net from an acute angle.

Full-Time: 3-1

The Clock (Atherstone) Sponsored MOM: Ryan Quinn

Atherstone Town: McNulty, Williams, Gray (Walker-Donovan), Haines, Rowe, Goodby, Harris (Mullings)Baxter, Thomson ( Miller), Quinn, Shorthouse.
Subs Not Used: Bilic, Green.