COBHAM Sports secured a comfortable 2-0 victory over Sherborne Town Reserves at Merley Park on Saturday.

The hosts put last week’s disappointment of their 5-1 defeat to Blandford United behind them with goals in each half over their north Dorset opponents to secure all three points in the Dorset Premier League.

Cobham dictated the game for long periods and came out of the blocks quickly.

They should have opened the scoring just two minutes in through Josh Buck, but the visitors’ defenders put their bodies on the line to block his goal bound effort.

Buck had a shot saved after six minutes before Alex Borges and Kingsley Eze-Sunday both went close on 24 and 28 minutes respectively.

Cobham did take the lead in the 33rd minute, when an Ellis George diagonal ball found Eze-Sunday on the left, and, after holding off a challenge, he found Charlie Shears who made no mistake and finished clinically.

The sides went into the interval at 1-0, and Cobham started the second period quickly, too.

Buck had a 20-yard effort saved in the 46th minute, as Cobham continued to control the game, playing patient football and trying to draw their opponents out.

Too often they gave the ball away in the final third, but the hosts kept pressing to extend their lead.

Sixteen-year-old Jimmy Fry came on after 65 minutes and was unlucky to see his goal bound effort deflected onto the bar as Cobham dominated.

Eze-Sunday saw a header saved at the back post after 68 minutes, before Cobham doubled their lead.

A flowing move saw a Buck cross headed home at the near post by Mike Trim, giving keeper Hulland no chance in the Sherborne net.

The visitors threw men forward to try to get back into the game but Cobham held firm and took the 2-0 victory.