ALISTAIR Palmer bagged a brace as Aberystwyth University continued to look up in the Spar Mid Wales League division two with a 5-2 beating of Newbridge.

Victory took the students up to eighth in the league table, with 13 points having come from their last six outings, and they are now just four points off fourth spot.

Palmer had the ball in the net in the second minute, but his effort was ruled out for offside, and it was the visitors who took the lead through Ollie Woods.

The students stormed back, however, with Liam Powell netting from a Henry Nicholson corner to level matters, before Nicholson crossed from the right for Shaun Roberts to head home a third goal.

That was how the scoring remained in the first half, before an own goal from a long throw-in by Palmer saw the students extend their advantage after the break.

Palmer then made it 4-1 with a penalty, after Powell had been brought down, and he then got his second when heading in after good work by sub Matt Hunton.

Newbridge pulled back a consolation through Aeron Powell, but the students held firm to register a fifth league win.

Borth United maintained pole position as they continued their winning ways with a superb 4-1 win over Churchstoke.

The visitors boast a twin strike force of Joe Haycock and Max Mclaughlin that is as prolific as any in this league, but the early exchanges were evenly balanced.

It was Borth who broke the deadlock, however, when the prolific Ryan Davies raced onto a through ball and rifled a right footed shot into the top corner.

Churchstoke quickly equalised when Josh Mcglynn fired a superb free kick into the top corner, and within minutes it took a tremendous one-handed save by Sean Gates to keep out a Joe Haycock strike.

With half-time imminent, however, Liam Berner then scored from close range to give Borth a 2-1 lead at the interval.

Churchstoke held the upper hand in the opening quarter of the second half, but despite wave after wave of good quality attacks the Borth defence held firm.

Gates again saved a point blank shot to deny the visitors, but with the match going into the last 10 minutes Churchstoke were open to the Borth counter attack.

Ryan Davies ran through the non-existent defence, and squared the ball for James Davies to score into an open goal.

Then, in injury time, Ryan Davies was again on hand to square the ball for Liam Lewis to score at the far post to complete a very satisfying win for the frontrunners.

Title rivals Kerry meanwhile had to battle for a 2-1 win over improved Penybont.

Goals from Luke Tanner, with his first goal for the Lambs, and a second half strike from Adam Pugh secured the win, with Tom Jones scoring an own goal.

Builth Wells hit back from being 3-0 down with a quarter of an hour to go against Presteigne to salvage a 4-4 draw.

A rare goal from midfielder Will Clinton, a brace from David Thomas and a Josh Price header earned the Bulls a point.

Duane Anning, Matt Strangwood, Justin Davies and Adam Crowe got the replies.

Abermule’s David Anthony scored twice as they eased to a 5-0 home win over Dolgellau, with Tommy Jones, Tyler McCarthy and Charlie Bosco also scoring.

Geraint Roberts scored twice as Dyffryn Banw notched a 2-0 win at Four Crosses.