EARLY leaders in Leigh & District Amateur Football League are Higher Fold Village Inn.

They have stormed to the top of Division One, bouncing back from 3-1 down at Leigh Eagles to win 4-3. Geoff Myers, Phil Aldred 2 and Mick Blackley hit the top target, Clinton Andrews 2 and Greg Anderson scored for Eagles.

Atherton Tigers recovered from a single goal defeat on the opening day of the season to thrash Queens 6-1, Curtis Cooper getting a hat-trick.

Lion Inn LMP smacked in five at Rileys, Alan Litherland - who scored more than 70 last season - getting four.

In Division Two new club Ellesmere are early leaders, repeating last week's 6-0 scoreline with another six against Ross's. Steve Anderson hit a hat-trick.

New Inn Rangers, however, have 13 goals from their two games. Roger Bond grabbed three in Saturday's 5-1 win at Leigh Phoenix B.

RESULTS - Division One: Atherton C&N 0 Church Inn 1, Atherton Tigers 6 Queens 1, Leigh Eagles 3 HF Village Inn 4, Leigh Phoenix 2 Royal Oak 4 (match abandoned, 85 minutes), Rileys 2 Lion Inn LMP 5; Division Two: Leigh Phoenix 1 New Inn 5, Butchers 4 Leigh Phoenix 1, Sir Charles Napier 2 Britannia 1, Ellesmere 6 Ross's 0, Union Arms 3 Hag Fold WMC 2.

FIXTURES - Division One: Church Inn v Rileys, HF Village Inn v Atherton C&N, Lion Inn LMP v Leigh Phoenix A, Royal Oak v Atherton Tigers, Union A v Leigh Eagles; Division Two: Butchers v Charles Napier, HF WMC v Leigh Phoenix B, New Inn v Corbett Brewery, Ross's v Leigh Victoria.

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