Burnham marched through to the quarter-final of the Berks & Bucks Senior Cup on Tuesday evening after pulling off perhaps the most notable result of a full programme of ties in the last 16 on the night.

Despite the setback of Saturday’s 2-1 Combined Counties League defeat to Ardley United at the 1878 Stadium, The Blues are in good form and they dominated the opening stages of their tie at York Road against a much-changed but strong-looking Maidenhead United line-up before falling behind against the run of play when debutant Watford loanee Nickson Okosun scored an opportunist goal.

Burnham were not behind for long, Donte Rangers scoring with a quite spectacular left footed dipping effort on the run midway through the first half.  There was no further scoring but Blues ‘keeper Archie Cunningham made a number of excellent blocks in a second half largely dominated by an increasingly frustrated home side and Cunningham then saved a penalty from George Abbott in the resulting shoot-out.  Substitute Kauã Faria  had a chance to win it with Burnham’s fifth penalty but skied his effort, Maidenhead’s Jadyn Dundas doing the same with Maidenhead’s seventh before Kevar McKenzie prompted delirious scenes of celebration with his effort which completed a 6-5 penalty shoot-out victory.

The 90 minutes at Maidenhead was actually the lowest scoring match of a goal-laden night.  Wokingham Town summoned up the spirit of 1996 to defeat Aylesbury United 3-0 at Lowther Road and cause an upset against the Southern League Division One Central strugglers.   Town defeated the same opposition – then also a tier higher than the Sumas – in the final 30 years ago and this time Naz Miah, Sean Moore and Charlie North scored inside the final seventeen minutes to complete an emphatic win.

At Stag Meadow there was another thrilling upset.  Step 4 Windsor & Eton bloodied the nose of Step 3 strugglers Bracknell Town, coming back from 2 goals down to do so.  Khalid Simmo put the Royalists back into the game before the break, the comeback secured by Iasiah Chase and Simmo’s second.  The name of Windsor & Eton hasn’t been etched onto the Senior Cup since 2008/09.

Elsewhere, another all-Berkshire tie saw Binfield – five goals ahead at half time – thrash Sandhurst Town 5-1, Basingstoke loanee Larry Omoregie leading the way for the Moles with a brace.  Ascot United were well beaten at The Racecourse, shipping six without reply to Wycombe Wanderers.  The Yellas have to pick themselves up for a big Pitching In Isthmian Football League South-Central Division derby on Saturday at Binfield.

In the ‘other’ county, Penn & Tylers Green swept aside Step 6 outfit Wantage Town 4-1 at French School Meadow and way up north Spartan South Midland League side Newport Pagnell defeated Holmer Green by the same score.

With Reading receiving a bye into the last eight, the quarter final line-up for the draw to be held on Friday 13^th November is:

Binfield

Burnham

Newport Pagnell Town

Penn & Tylers Green

Reading

Windsor & Eton

Wokingham Town

Wycombe Wanderers