Sunderland RCA 1 Newton Aycliffe 2
Wayne Buchanan in defensive action.
Goal scorers: SRCA: Larkin Aycliffe: Campbell (2)
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RCA returned to league action today after eight weeks of cup matches and postponements. Our last league match on 19th December 2015 was against West Allotment Celtic. Today, we welcomed a revitalised Newton Aycliffe team to Meadow Park, who, like ourselves, are undergoing a period of transition and are pushing for a top six finish to the season.
The management team at RCA made three changes to the team beaten by Whickham in the Durham Challenge Cup with Richardson replacing Cook, Hatch replacing Cresswell and Charlton returning in place of Hughes.
Tremendous work by the groundsmen to get the pitch in a playable condition was rewarded with an entertaining match, although the constant rain / snow during the game did little to help the underfoot conditions and the pitch started to cut up badly towards the end of the game.
RCA took advantage of the slope in the first half, but faced a stiff head wind which was unusually blowing off the North Sea.
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