REPORT: Bath City 2-0 Bishop's Stortford

Bath City ended a run of eight home league matches without a win with a 2-0 victory over Bishop's Stortford on Saturday.

City ended their long wait for a home league victory this afternoon with goals either side of the half-time interval by Nick McCootie and Jack Batten seeing them past struggling Bishop's Stortford.

After a bright start from City it was the visitors who enjoyed the better of the opening 20 minutes and they really should have taken the lead during this spell.

Barnwell, Stephenson and Fagan all failed to take advantage of promising positions and this was as good as it got for Stortford, as City slowly began to get on top.

A couple of half-chances came and went before, with 41 minutes on the clock, neat interplay between Miles Welch-Hayes and Andy Watkins saw the former's low cross eventually fall for McCootie to turn it home.

Then four minutes into the second half Batten took advantage of non-existent defending to make it 2-0 with a header from Billy Murphy's corner.

City were now in total control of the game and should really have added to the scoring, especally when Connor Lemonheigh-Evans somehow missed an open goal from just a few yards in stoppage-time, but they had already done enough to end a run of eight Vanarama National League South home games without a win, dating back to mid-September.