A YOUNG football squad clinched a semi-final place in emphatic style.

Rainhill under 13s beat Blackleyhurst 8-0 and now need to win one more game to reach the final of the Rainhill Junior League Cup.

RESULTS

Saturday

Under 10s mini soccer: Rocket Rangers 2 Captains Lane Celtic 2, Eccleston United 1 Young Gate Celtic 1, Bleak Hill Celtic 2 Bleak Hill Rangers 0, Whiston Celtic 1 Young Gate Rangers 0, Ravenhead 1 Rainhill United 0, Whiston Rangers 1 Pilkington Celtic 0, Rocket Rangers 0 Young Gate Celtic 2, Eccleston United 2 Bleak Hill Rangers 1, Bleak Hill Celtic 5 Captains Lane Celtic 0, Whiston Celtic 1 Rainhill United 1, Ravenhead 2 Whiston Rangers 0, Young Gate Rangers 2 Pilkington Celtic 1, Rocket Rangers 0 Bleak Hill Rangers 4, Eccleston United 1 Bleak Hill Celtic 3, Young Gate Celtic 4 Captains Lane Celtic 2.

Sunday

Under 15s: Blackleyhurst 1 Eccleston United 1.

Under 13s Challenge Cup quarter-final: Rainhill United 8 Blackleyhurst 0.

Under 13s Cup first round: Pilkington 7 Prescot Cables 0.

Under 13s: Bleak Hill Rovers 0 Whiston 4, St Annes Rovers 5 Rocket 1.

Under 11s: Lane Ends Athletic 2 Bleak Hill Rovers 3, Ravenhead 2 Blackbrook 1, St Annes Rovers 1 Captains Lane 0, Whiston 0 Agrevo 0. FIXTURES

Saturday

Under 10s mini soccer

9.30: Blackleyhurst v Lane Ends Athletic, Rocket Celtic v Captains Lane Rangers, Pilkington Rangers v Oak.

10.00: Prescot Cables v Blackleyhurst, Lane Ends Athletic v Rocket Celtic, Captains Lane Rangers v Pilkington Rangers.

10.45: Oak v Prescot Cables, Blackleyhurst v Rocket Celtic, Lane Ends Athletic v Captains Lane Rangers.

11.15: Prescot Cabels v Pilkington Rangers, Oak v Blackleyhurst.

Sunday

Under 15s: Agrevo v Rainhill United, Blackleyhurst v Blackbrook, Cronton v Haydock, Eccleston United v Knowsley South, Rainford Rangers v Bleak Hill Rovers, St Annnes Rovers v Holt, Whiston v Sidac.

Under 13s: Alder Athletic v Rainhill United, Bleak Hill Rovers v Blackleyhurst, Knowsley South v Yougn Gate, Lane Ends Athletic v St Annes Rovers, Prescot Cables v Blackbrook, Rocket v Rainford Rangers, Whiston v Pilkington, Wilmere Hawks v Captains Lane.

Under 11s: Agrevo v Lane Ends Athletic, Blackbrook v St Annes Rovers, Blackleyhurst v Young Gate, Bleak Hill Rovers v Captains Lane, Pilkington v Whiston, Rainhill United v Ravenhead, Seneley and Garswood v Knowsley South.

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