Haverfordwest County boss Tony Pennock was delighted with the way his team bounced back from last week’s disappointment to claim an impressive 2-0 victory at Bala Town on Friday night.

In awful conditions, the Bluebirds controlled the contest from the first minute until the final whistle, with Corey Shephard’s goal-of-the-season contender from the half way line giving County a 1-0 lead at the break before Ben Ahmun’s penalty less than two minutes into the second half were enough to earn the spoils.

The result sees the Blues move up two places to ninth for the time being, with Pennock’s men looking to finish strong in their final four games of Phase One in the JD Cymru Premier.

Here’s what the manager had to say after the game:

On the result

Really big. After last week’s performance, we wanted the boys to give us a reaction and I thought they were fantastic tonight from the start of the game all the way to the end. I thought we thoroughly deserved the win.

On Corey Shephard

We missed Sheps last week. He’s been outstanding since I’ve been at the club for four years, and he’s a big part of what we do. He gives us some momentum to get forward up the pitch, and he’s seen the keeper off his line and it’s a hell of a strike.

He’s just a bit tight to be fair. The way he plays, he gives us everything and fortunately now we’ve got a break next week, so he should be fine, but we can’t afford to lose people for any length of time. So it’s important that we look after him as well.

On the remainder of Phase One

Three points is massive. It puts us one point behind Bala now. I don’t know how the other results have gone this evening, but all we can do is look after ourselves. If we perform like that then we’ll compete with most teams, and it was a really pleasing performance this evening.