COLWYN BAY ended their season on a winning note to finish seventh in Unibond Divison One South after a 4-2 victory in their final game against bottom-of-the-table Spalding, who had to play for over an hour with 10 men after their keeper was sent off.
Simon Ward was given a straight red card for handling the ball inches outside his area after a fumble under pressure from Anthony Wright, and substitute James Doughty's first action after replacing him in goal was to pick the ball out of the net as John Lawless scored from the resulting free kick on 28 minutes.
Earlier Colwyn Bay keeper Jamie Speare had saved a Luke Forbes penalty after a Matt Murphy shot struck Chris Taylor on the arm, but Speare was beaten on 32 minutes by Ben Garrick's clever chip to level the scores.
Two minutes later, however, Lawless crossed for Anthony Wright to head the Seagulls back in front, and that lead could have been doubled before half-time with Mark Quayle firing a great chance over the bar, after earlier spectacularly hitting the bar with a 35-yard volley.
Speare made a fine save to deny Matt Murphy at the other end, but five minutes into the second half Adam Wade scored a third goal for Colwyn Bay from 25 yards, and on 69 minutes Quayle headed a fourth from a cross by substitute Neil Black.
Murphy got a second goal back from close range on 75 minutes before Doughty made a fine save to turn a Lawless penalty round the post after Wade had been upended in the box.
Colwyn Bay: Speare, Callaghan, P Williams, Walker, Taylor, Wade, Fowler, Hoolicken (Wynne 70), Wright (Black 61), Quayle, Lawless. Sub not used: Finley.

It was good end to the season for the Bay with the match played in a carnival atmosphere after the club's campaign around local schools during the week produced an excellent end-of-season crowd of over 500, made up mainly of family groups.

LLANDUDNO'S disappointing end to their league season in the Cymru Alliance ended with a 0-0 home draw against Penrhyncoch.

LLANDUDNO JUNCTION moved off the bottom of the Welsh Alliance table with a 3-2 win over Rhyl Reserves, which gives Llanrwst United a great chance to finish third if they win their final game at Amlwch next Saturday.

In the Clwyd League, Penmaenmawr Phoenix beat Abergele Rovers 4-3 with a hat-trick from Ritchie Roberts at the top of the Premier Division, but Prestatyn Town Reserves have now got their first team big guns available to help them stitch up the title, and Cymru Alliance top scorer Steve Bowes scored four goals in a 9-0 win at Halkyn Reserves.
An Adam Jones hat-trick helped Glan Conwy Reserves beat Caerwys 4-0 in Division One, and and Rhos United won 6-1 at Llannefydd with five different scorers in Division Two, where Connahs Quay Reserves are set to snatch the title away from Llandudno Reserves after a 4-1 win at Penrhyn United.

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