THIS season’s CNet Training Suffolk Senior Cup is proving as competitive as ever!

Following on from three lower league sides knocking out higher league opposition in midweek, the first-round ties played over the weekend saw some more eye-catching results.

Macrons SIL Senior Division side Stowupland Falcons won 4-2 on penalties following a 2-2 draw at newcomers Kings Park Rangers, leaders of the Essex & Suffolk Border League Premier Division.

Bungay Town of the Fosters Solicitors Anglian Combinations League beat Thurlow Nunn League Division One North Needham Market Reserves 3-1 on spot kicks after they had played out a goalless draw.

Haverhill Rovers, currently second in Thurlow Nunn League Division One North, fell at the first hurdle on Friday night, losing 3-1 at Sudbury Sports, who are eighth in the Border League Premier Division.

Holders Trimley Red Devils progressed 2-0 at home against newcomers Bacton United 89, but the third side playing their first match in the competition, Mutford & Wrentham, scored a last-gasp winner in a 3-2 victory at Leiston St Margarets. The home team’s captain Pat Doyle is pictured above slipping the ball past Mutford & Wrentham’s goalkeeper Kieran Cook to open the scoring. Photograph: Ian Smillie.

Holders Ransomes Sports eased through to round two of this season’s Best Badges Suffolk Veterans’ Cup with a 10-0 victory over AFC Hoxne Reserves, while previous winners Woodbridge Town defeated Oulton United 3-1.

AFC Kesgrave scored six and Waveney ETC five in their wins at Hadleigh United and Corton & Carlton Colville respectively.

In the new Best Badges Suffolk Veterans’ Shield, Martlesham Old Boys netted ten times, Ransomes Sports Reserves eight, Old Newton United seven and Bury Town Reserves, Framlingham Town and Waveney Athletic, who won 5-4 at Ipswich Park, all scored five.

County cup action continues on Tuesday evening with two ties in this season’s Endeavour Automotive Suffolk Premier Cup and one in the Portable Space Suffolk Senior Reserve Cup.

Stowmarket Town host an Ipswich Town XI in a first-round tie, while Walsham-le-Willows will be aiming to upset higher-league AFC Sudbury in their second-round match in the Suffolk Premier Cup.

The first of this season's Senior Reserve Cup ties sees Brantham Athletic U23s host Coplestonians Reserves.

 Weekend Results

Friday

CNet Training Suffolk Senior Cup First Round: Sudbury Sports 3 Haverhill Rovers 1.

Best Badges Suffolk Veterans’ Cup First Round: Woodbridge Town 3 Oulton Utd 1.

Saturday

CNet Training Suffolk Senior Cup First Round: Beccles Town 5 Grundisburgh 1, Bungay Town 0 Needham Market Res 0 – Bungay Town won 3-1 on pens, Coplestonians 2 East Bergholt Utd 1, Debenham LC 1 Whitton Utd 2, Halesworth Town 3 Wickham Market 1, Kings Park Rangers 2 Stowupland Falcons 2 – Stowupland Falcons won 4-2 on pens, Leiston U23s 1 Old Newton Utd 0, Leiston St Margarets 2 Mutford & Wrentham 3, Sporting 87 0 Brandon Town 3, Trimley Red Devils 2 Bacton Utd 89 0.

Sunday

Best Badges Suffolk Veterans’ Cup First Round: Corton & Carlton Colville 0 Waveney ETC 5, Foxhall Town v Lowestoft Casuals Old Boys – Home Win Walkover, Hadleigh Utd 3 AFC Kesgrave 6, Lowestoft Casuals v Spexhall Huntsman & Hounds – Home Win Walkover, Moulton v Bury Town – Away Win Walkover, Ransomes Sports 10 AFC Hoxne Res 0, Sole Bay Utd 0 Ipswich Wanderers 3, Stour Valley v Mendlesham – Home Win Walkover.

Best Badges Suffolk Veterans’ Shield First Round: Bury Town Res 5 New Street Rovers 1, Eye Saints 1 Aldeburgh Town 3, Framlingham Town 5 Kirton Old Boys 3, Ipswich Golden Hind 1 Old Newton Utd 7, Ipswich Park 4 Waveney Athletic 5, Kesgrave Kestrels 3 Kirton Old Boys Res 2, Martlesham Old Boys 10 AFC Chelmondiston 0, Occold 3 Ransomes Sports Res 8, Stowupland Falcons 1 Cavendish 0, Walsham-le-Willows 2 Woolverstone Utd 1, Waveney 3 Coplestonians 3 – Waveney won 4-2 0n pens.

Midweek Fixtures

Tuesday

Endeavour Automotive Suffolk Premier Cup First Round: Stowmarket Town v Ipswich Town XI (7.45pm).

Endeavour Automotive Suffolk Premier Cup Second Round: Walsham-le-Willows V AFC Sudbury (7.45pm).

Portable Space Suffolk Senior Reserve Cup First Round: Brantham Athletic U23s v Coplestonians Res (7.45pm).