AUSTIN Ex-Apprentices have been crowned champions of the Redditch and South Warwickshire Combination Premier Division with one game left to play after beating Black Horse 4-0 last weekend.
Andy Nicol scored his 43rd league goal of the season to help them on their way.
In Division One, Red Lion narrowly beat Redolence Park in a nine-goal thriller after being 3-1 up at half time.
Redolence fought back and with two minutes to go making the match 5-4 but could not take the game to a tie.
Elsewhere, Winyates Wanderers played out a 2-2 draw with Studley Railway.
Railway had the best of the first half and surged into a 2-0 lead at the break.
In the second half, Winyates stormed back with a superb display of determination and levelled through Matt Rowland and Marc Jovanovic.
In Group One of the Subsidiary Cup, South Redditch thrashed Royal Oak Alcester 10-1 with four goals by Darren Gaffney and three from Aaron Brouch.
In Group Two, Lodge Park beat VKL Utd 3-0 and in Group Three Beoley Village saw off Millfield Rovers 3-2.
RESULTS — Premier Division: Black Horse 0 Austin Ex-Apps 4 (R Deeming 2, Andy Nicol, Josh Westwood).
Division One: Red Lion 5 (McNally 2, Sutor 2, Bearcroft), Redolence Park 4 (Tim Lees 3, Holdstock); Winyates Wanderers 2 (Lee Bourke, Luke Grubb), Studley Railway 2 (Matt Rowland, Marc Jovanovic).
Subsidiary Cup — Group One: Royal Oak Alcester 1 (Kyle Suggars), South Redditch 10 (Daniel Gaffney 4, Aaron Brouch 3, Ashna Powell 2, Nicholas Rumbold).
Subsidiary Cup — Group Two: VKL 0, Lodge Park 3 (Peter Murphy 2, Darrell King).
Subsidiary Cup — Group Three: Millfield Rovers 2 (Shane Smith, Nathan McLaughlin), Beoley Village 3 (Mario Prota 2, Luke Kinist).
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