Sherburn White Rose have made it through to the semi finals of the league cup, after a hard earned victory away at holders Carlton Athletic. 2 - 1 after extra time.

Sherburn playing up the hill started the game very well indeed - playing some excellent football, so much so that they took the lead after 5mins Marc Bradley scored from a shot on the edge of the box which the goalkeeper was unable to deal with. Sherburn continued to play some excellent passing football, Ryan Hill and Scott Williams especially, getting in behind Carlton's back three. Only players just unable to get on the end of crosses and being more clinical in and around the penalty area kept the scoreline at 1 - 0. Unfortunately for Sherburn they had to make an early change when Jamie Middleton had to be replaced by Lee Gemmell due to injury but this did not seem to have any negative effect on the team's performance in the first half. Carlton's only response in the first half was to rely on their Goalkeeper kicking the ball some 70 yards down the pitch and relying on any mistakes that they could feed off. Unfortunately there weren't any and Simon Hudson had very little to deal with.

Carlton started the brightest in the second half after an obvious discussion at half time, they were able to capitalise on a dubious free kick which was awarded to them - it was a poor free kick which was nothing less than a grubber, passing five Sherburn players who failed to clear meaning Carlton equalised. Both teams created opportunities in what became a very open second half due to the fact that the amount of mistakes that were made from both sides neither team could take any of the opportunities. And even though Carlton had a player sent off, Sherburn could not make the extra man count, which was very disappointing.

Sherburn were fortunate enough to play up hill first at extra time and Carlton offered very little in attacking prowess, Sherburn also offered very little in this half and started to look very tired.

In the second half, with Sherburn playing down the hill and both teams cancelling each other out, Scott Williams managed to offer some inspiration when he unleashed his shot from 25 yards which the goalkeeper was only able to parry into the advancing Adam Priestley who tucked it away. this made it 2-1 with 5 minutes remaining.

Positive performances on the day came from Ryan Hill and Danny Graham who were excellent in the full back positions, and Scott Williams who for the majority of the game expressed excellent technique and vision.