The home team enjoyed most of the possession in the opening fifteen minutes of the game with their greatest threat coming down the left-wing. Connor Green had room to send a strong shot over the Brigg crossbar and then delivered an in-swinging corner kick, which was also headed over. Maintaining the early pressure, a corner kick from the right-wing was headed down inside the goal area but well defended and cleared.
Brigg started to get more of the ball and from their first attack down the left-wing, Martin Pembleton sliced a shot wide of the Ollerton goal. The immediate response came from a free kick mid-way into Brigg’s half but this was too deep and wasted.
Brigg opened the scoring in the twenty-seventh minute of the game when a long ball from Steve McCarron was played into space down the left wing where Andy Taylor was able to move it inside for Martin Pembleton to connect with a fine shot into the far top corner of the net from twenty yards out. When Ollerton responded another left-wing cross from Gav King was driven into the side netting of Miles Fenty’s goal.
In the last fifteen minutes of the first half, Brigg began to look more confident and dangerous with their attacks. Andy Taylor found room on the left wing to pull the ball back for Scott Phillips to find the back of the net but an earlier off-side decision was awarded. Then Andy Taylor was beaten to the ball by goalkeeper Levi Owen as he raced through on goal and three consecutive corner kicks from Martin Pembleton were well defended.
Owen Vincent was introduced as substitute for Andy Taylor at half time but inside the first minute of the second half, Brigg doubled their scoreline advantage. When the ball was played quickly from the halfway line through the heart of the home defence, Dayle Hutson raced clear before finding the bottom of the net.
The two-goal advantage allowed Brigg to control the game but Miles Fenty was called upon to save from Gav King’s fierce shot.
Ten minutes from the end, the home team scored from a left-wing corner kick. The ball was played to the far post by Sam Geeves into the crowded goal area and forced into the top corner of the net by Callum Atkinson. More pressure came in the closing minutes of play but Brigg continued to stay calm and looked capable of further progress until the final whistle.
With two good opening wins secured in the new season, the team now has a further two home fixtures in the week ahead, firstly against Hallam in the first round of the League Cup on Wednesday evening followed by a scheduled league match against Selby Town on Saturday afternoon.