Alnwick Town	2 - 5	Newcastle United
Half time:	2 - 1
Score Sheet:
Keenan (29) Belisle (35)		McMenamin (37) McMenamin (55)   McMenamin (56) McMenamin (60)   McMenamin (65)
	Teams
Wayne Belisle tbc tbc tbc tbc tbc tbc Ben Keenan Jason Belisle tbc tbc		Pringle McGuffie Dunn Hogg Marcelino Boyd Moore Kent Coppinger McMenamin Dimas
Substitutes:
to follow...		David Cowan for Marcelino (58) Bradley Orr for Boyd (65) Carl Bell for Pringle (70) Joe Kendrick for Hogg (73) Craig Robson for  Moore (75)
Subs not used:
tbc		None
Bookings:
n/a		n/a
Referee: tbc
Attendance: tbc

29 mins  Ben Keenan 0-1

35 mins  Jason Belisle 0-2

37 mins James Coppinger set up fellow striker Colin McMenamin for his first of the evening, a firm shot past the 'keeper. 1-2

Half time: Alnwick Town 2 Newcastle Reserves 1

55 mins  A headed goal for McMenamin his time, after good work from debutant Ryan Hogg 2-2

56 mins The hat trick was duly claimed by McMenamin within seconds of the restart, Boyd this time the provider. 3-2

60 mins Another goal, same scorer - McMenamin, following a centre from substitute Cowan. 4-2

65 mins  A fifth for United and McMenamin, after he walked the ball round the 'keeper and knocked it home. 5-2

Full time: Alnwick Town 2 Newcastle Reserves 5

Coach Tommy Craig commented to .cock:

"Colin's got the knack of being in the right place at the right time. In truth, he could have had eight or nine but i'm not complaining."

Colin McMenamin grabbed all five goals for Tommy Craig's reserves in the scenic location of St.James' Park, Alnwick. 

United trailed 2-0 early on but McMenamin pulled one back before half-time before finishing the job in some style with four second half goals in a ten minute burst. 

This bettered his four goal haul last year against Ponteland in the Northumberland Senior Cup, and reinforced his growing reputation as a goal poacher of some renown. 

The game saw debuts for Ryan Hogg, Chris Moore, Craig Robson, Robert Kent and Paul Dunn at this level as Tommy was forced to play an inexperienced side due to first team commitments elsewhere. In fact, three of the lads had come on as subs earlier in the day as a junior side lost 1-0 to Darlington's youngsters at Durham.

Despite the fine weather, only a small crowd were present to see the match, as the first team's Intertoto tie away at 1860 Munich was being televised live on channel 5. Inevitably this also meant that Bobby Robson wasn't around - the first reserve game he's missed this season.

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