By Andy Simpson

WITTON ALBION 0
SOUTH SHIELDS 1
SOUTH Shields seem unburdened by expectation they will be champions this season after a third successive victory.
However, the Mariners were made to earn a win against opponents they had admitted are among their most testing.
A moment of magic in the second half settled the outcome when Blair Adams fired low past Greg Hall, Witton Albion’s goalkeeper, after deftly lifting the ball between two defenders.
The breakthrough arrived during the visitors’ best spell following the interval. Hall had tipped Nathan Lowe’s fierc...