Welton continued their unbeaten league start to the season with a hard-fought draw with the visitors from South Somerset.

The game started in very sultry and heavy conditions that would test the stamina of both sets of players.

Welton pressed from the kick-off and striker, Andy Keen, was inches wide from connecting with a quality Jack Metcalf free kick. Further Welton pressure saw a corner from Dan Scrivens fall to new signing, Jake Slocombe, and his first-time effort was saved low down by Michael Neish in the visitors goal.

Slocombe then found himself in space twenty yards out and he fired in a cracking shot that was saved by Neish. Youngster Ryan Gay then got into the action and he fired in a tremendous volley that the keeper could only parry away.

However, against the run of play, it was Wellington who took the lead with, virtually, their first attack on the Welton goal. A cross from the right was not dealt with by the Welton defence and the ball fell to Max Westlake, who calmly slotted the ball past Chris Blammon. This knocked the stuffing out of Welton for a while, but with the encouragement of the Green Army, efforts from Keen and Patrick Doyle went close to getting the equaliser before half-time.

The second half got underway with Welton going all out for the equaliser and they were rewarded on sixty minutes when a deep cross from Scrivens, who was having a good game for Welton, was met by Keen who had outjumped Neish and glanced the ball into the Wellington net, much to the delight of the local support.

Five minutes later, Welton took the lead when youngster Matt Curtis scored his first senior goal for the club when he raced down the right flank, saw the Wellington keeper well off his line, so he launched a great shot that flew over the head of the retreating keeper and into the far corner of the visitors' net.

Welton's joy was shortlived as Wellington equalised a few minutes later. A mix-up in the Welton defence allowed the ball to fall to Leon Tazwell and with keeper Blammon off his line, Tazwell drilled his shot into the empty Welton net. Both sides went all out for the all-important next goal, but in the end the stalemate could not be broken and the points were shared.

Bob Allard