Crowle held on to top spot in the Lincolnshire League after a first visit to Immingham’s Blossom Way ground. The home side was perhaps the division’s form team, having won eight of its last nine games, but it was the Colts who created the earlier chances.

Kurt Robinson had already fired a shot narrowly wide of Jack Gibbons’ goal before Jordan Spencer opened the scoring with a goal in the first ten minutes – exactly as he had seven days earlier. Capitalizing on Alex Hazell’s short through-ball, Spencer found the bottom corner of Immingham’s goal with a left-footed shot from around the penalty spot. At the other end of the field Immingham’s Alex Booker forced a good save from Dec Jordan which resulted in the ball ballooning to Taylor Wood whose header went over the crossbar, preserving Crowle’s clean sheet.

Seconds after almost squaring the game, Immingham went further behind as Lewis Walker turned a first-time cross from the right wing into the path of Robinson who side-footed his thirteenth goal of the season. An overly-physical challenge from Hazell earned the ball-winning midfielder a yellow card two minutes later as the home side began to find the form which had instigated its ascent up the league in recent weeks. A series of free kicks and corners were repelled by Crowle’s defence, keen to keep a fifth clean sheet in seven games, a task made a little less difficult when Immingham’s dangerous right winger Connor Southern had to replaced through injury.

The Colts maintained their two-goal advantage after the change of ends without seriously threatening to increase it. Immingham’s best efforts to halve the deficit would come from set pieces, and there were plenty of them in the second half – for both sides, as the referee’s whistle received a thorough workout. Crowle’s man of the match could have been any of the defenders who prevented Immingham scoring for the first time in over five months, in the end the vote went the way of left back Sam Goodhand.