Local Report - Non-league football

By Nick Bowler
Sports reporter, BBC Radio Norfolk

King's Lynn's Anthony Robinson took his season's goal tally to 13

Lowestoft Town's FA Cup adventure came to an end in the first round proper at the hands of Blue Square Premier side Wrexham.

The Blues held there own for 88 minutes at the Racecourse Ground, with a replay at Crown Meadow looking likely.

But those thoughts were destroyed when Gareth Taylor scrappily put home an 89th-minute winner for the Welsh hosts.

To put this performance into context, Wrexham are a full-time side that play three leagues higher than the Trawley Boys - but for much of the game you wouldn't have known that to be the case.

Lowestoft are certainly on the rise and they hopefully won't allow this cruel defeat detract from important matters in the league.

Elsewhere, King's Lynn thumped Durham City 11-0, with Anthony Robinson and Kwesi Appiah both netting hat-tricks.

It was a win that Carl Heggs' side were expected to register, but to score that many goals at any level is quite something.

Again, a little context around this amazing result is only fair on Durham City.

They lost sponsors and all of their players during the summer when the club was told that they wouldn't be eligible for promotion due to the fact that they play on an artificial pitch.

So it's basically a youth side - quite literally men against boys most weeks - and they have yet to earn a point for their troubles.

You can only applaud them for playing week in, week out, under such circumstances.

In the Ridgeons Premier Division there was another mixed bag for Norfolk's teams.

Wroxham went down 2-1 to leaders Leiston, while Norwich United drew and King's Lynn Reserves lost.

However, in Division One there was wins for Great Yarmouth Town, Diss Town, Gorleston and Downham Town.

But, Swaffham Town lost 7-0 at home to Whitton United.

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