CONDEMNED CLEVEDON & VALLEY PRODUCE END-OF-SEASON EXCITEMENT!

With the two sides going into the game having already conceded just short of two hundred times between them, a goal fest was always on the cards for the season finale at Butlin Road and so it proved to be the case.

By Jon Venner.

The hosts opened the scoring after 23 minutes when David Kolodynski slid in on Chris Hollist’s low drive into the box, but Clevedon were level just before the interval when Sam Birtwhistle helped Joey Evans’s cross past his own keeper.

The visitors broke quickly shortly after the restart, and Nana Baah clipped the ball over Danny Bell to give his side the lead, but this was only short-lived when Shawn Richards finished off Karl Fellows’s ball into the box to make it 2-2.

Matt Walsh got in behind the Rugby defence to restore the away side’s advantage on 66 minutes, and when Clevedon substitute Toby Osman made it four, it seemed another defeat was on the cards for Valley.

However Andy Stevens reduced the arrears when he followed up on Richards’s parried shot, and then Fellows scored the final leveller of the game from the spot after Craig Loxton had handled in the penalty area.