County Cup
Sunday, 1 October 2006
The RCA Sunday 11 have had contrasting fortunes in the past two weeks. A week ago a severely depleted team lost 8-1 against the Golden Fleece in a Sunderland Sunday league fixture, but Sunday gone was a different story as a stronger line up, though still missing a few players, enjoyed a County Cup victory away against Preston and Eaglescliffe.
RCA won 2-0 comfortably enough against their big and powerful opponents with two first half goals, the first an opportunist header from Steve Proudlock and the second a classic own goal by an embarrassed defender attempting to clear a corner.
The Teessiders had their chances but RCA saw the game out to progress to the Third qualifying round of the prestigious County competition.