COVENTRY SPH 3 WHITCHURCH AL 3 ALPORT WON 4-2 ON PENS
By Wilf Alexander

ALEX Hughes bagged the hat-trick that dragged 10-man Whitchurch Alport back from two down and then fired in the decider in the penalty shootout – his third successful spot-kick of the day.
Alport, of the Midland Premier Division, looked down and out, trailing 3-1 at half-time after George Carpenter had been sent off for handball as early as the 34th minute.
However, Whitchurch enjoyed the better of the second half and Hughes’s second goal, from an acute angle with 16 minutes to go, came at a time when...