WESTFIELDS 1, MALVERN TOWN 6

MALVERN Town turned in a superb performance to hit near neighbours, Westfields, for six on their visit to Rotherwas on Saturday in a Bank's Brewery Premier League game.

Malvern, sponsored by Clarke Roxburgh Insurance Brokers Limited, started brightly but went a goal down in the 28th minute when Andy Meadmore outstripped the Town's defence to pick out Derek Craddock at the far post who slid the ball under the diving body of Ross Sanders in the visitors goal.

However, straight from the re-spot Malvern drew level when a corner by Joe Maidment was headed down by Sean Cotterill for Simon Judge to turn the ball into the net past the outstretched arms of keeper Richard Elton.

The Town were dictating play with Westfields only dangerous on the break but the Town's back three of Whittal-Williams, Lowe and Cotterill were equal to it and when the home side did get through Sanders was on top of his game to cope adequately.

On 38 minutes the Town should have taken the lead when they put together a superb move involving Phil Slade and Steve Walker on the left hand side finding Simon Judge ten yards out but the striker pulled his shot just wide of the upright.

On 43 minutes, however, Malvern did take the lead with a carbon copy of their equalising goal. This time Walker took a corner on the Westfields left deep to the far post where Cotterill rose high to knock the ball down for Judge to bravely dive between two defenders to head home.

The second period saw Malvern go straight on the attack and from a Steve Walker free kick John Wade brought a fine save from Elton.

On 54 minutes Elton could do nothing to stop the Town taking a 1-3 lead when Judge crossed into the box for Darren Taft to powerfully head home.

In the 83rd minute Malvern increased their lead when, after Adam Higgins had done the spade work, Simon Judge jinked his way through the home defence before finding the corner to notch a well earned hat-trick.

The Westfields defence were finding it difficult to keep the eager Town side at bay and on 86 minutes went further behind when Mark Brookes crossed for Scott Morris to find the net with a powerful header.

Westfields were now demoralised and with two minutes of normal time remaining the Town completed the rout when Judge brought his personal tally to four when he sidefooted home from close range to make the final score 1-6.

Town Reserves beat Ledbury Town 2-1 away on Saturday with goals by Rob Perrins and Andy Kingston.