Premier Comb'n No let up from top three in Premier title race

THE Premier Division's top three competitors are showing no mercy in a thrilling race for supremacy which could well go down to the wire.

- Simon PARKINSON

Leaders DRG Frenchay maintained a four-point advantage at the summit ahead of both Iron Acton and Hallen Reserves, who they visit on Saturday in the league's big Moorhouse Lane collision (2pm), thanks to a hard-fought 3-2 victory at Longwell Green Sports Reserves.

Tom Vaughan's fliers, still with just the one defeat, 4-1 at home to Bristol Barcelona, behind them, certainly had to work hard for an eighth Prem victory from 10 outings thus far, as they finished the contest with nine men before prevailing with goals from Emiel Aiken, Antonio Nurse and Joe Loney.

Longwell have been in urgent need of points scrapping it out in the lower reaches of the table and had Rowan Smith and Troy Randall goals keeping them in the contest, before the whistle agonisingly blew on a fifth defeat of their campaign.

Iron Acton are unrelenting at this time, too, as they gear up next for Saturday's test with lowly Shirehampton Reserves at Lodge Road (2pm).