{"id":180010,"date":"2026-04-30T06:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180010\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:16:09","slug":"sheerwater-end-season-with-southern-combination-cup-defeat-at-reading-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180010\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheerwater end season with Southern Combination Cup defeat at Reading City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheerwater ended their season with a 2-1 defeat at Reading City in the quarter-finals of the Southern Combination Cup.<\/p>\n

The Sheers had a good chance to take the lead on 17 minutes when George Sellick broke into Reading\u2019s penalty area and his shot took a deflection before it was cleared off the line.<\/p>\n

On 27 minutes Sellick\u2019s corner was met by Tom Gardner, who headed goalwards and was convinced the ball crossed the line before a defender cleared the ball away.<\/p>\n

On 35 minutes Reading missed a good chance with Stefan Brown hitting the ball over the target.<\/p>\n

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Action from Sheerwater’s 2-1 defeat at Reading City (Photo: Dan Eicke) (Dan Eicke)<\/p>\n

Reading then won a free kick and Joel Valentin\u2019s delivered found Sam Tanner, who headed over the bar.<\/p>\n

Neither side were able to break the deadlock before half-time, with the score remaining 0-0 at the interval.<\/p>\n

The Sheers nearly went ahead on 55 minutes when Harvey Valter shimmied past the Reading defence and shot past the far post.<\/p>\n

The Sheers did take the lead on 64 minutes after a free-flowing move. Dan Boyden and Valter combined to set up Sellick, who rifled his finish into the roof of the net.<\/p>\n

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Action from Sheerwater’s 2-1 defeat at Reading City (Photo: Dan Eicke) (Dan Eicke)<\/p>\n

Reading equalised two minutes later when Valentin\u2019s superb strike found the roof of the net.<\/p>\n

The hosts then took the lead in the 68th minute when Brown headed home from a corner.<\/p>\n

The Sheers had a good chance to equalise from a corner, but Razza Ajibola could not direct his header on target.<\/p>\n

The visitors went close again on 74 minutes when Boyden\u2019s crossfield pass found Sellick, whose shot went just wide.<\/p>\n

\"Action<\/p>\n

Action from Sheerwater’s 2-1 defeat at Reading City (Photo: Dan Eicke) (Dan Eicke)<\/p>\n

The Sheers had another good opportunity when Reading\u2019s keeper cleared the ball to Boyden, who put his effort over the bar from 40 yards out with the goal gaping.<\/p>\n

George Walker had Sheerwater\u2019s final chance, but his shot went well over the bar.<\/p>\n

\"Action<\/p>\n

Action from Sheerwater’s 2-1 defeat at Reading City (Photo: Dan Eicke) (Dan Eicke)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheerwater ended their season with a 2-1 defeat at Reading City in the quarter-finals of the Southern Combination…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-180010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}