Warrington 1 Stourbridge 5 - Report
Rampant Stourbridge put Warrington Town to the sword with a 5-1 victory that seized second spot in the Northern Premier League standings.
The Glassboys led 15 minutes in when Stuart Pierpoint marked his return to the starting XI by crashing home a swinging Tom Tonks free-kick at the far post.
Stour doubled their money two minutes later from another Tonks set piece as an almighty scramble ensued from a corner and Jordan Archer was on hand to pounce.
The visitors should have made it three in five minutes but Archer could not divert towards goal a near-post cross from recent recruit Devarn Green.
Warrington eventually settled and had their first sniff of goal when Rory McKeown drilled over from the edge of the box and the same player then teed up Josh Hine to whack a rising shot harmlessly over the crossbar.
Stour's Leon Broadhurst could only find the wall with a 25-yard free-kick 10 minutes before half-time but a mysterious penalty gave the home side a lifeline which Sean Williams gleefully took three minutes after the restart.
However, Stourbridge hit straight back as Archer latched on to a perfectly-weighted ball which had carved open the home defence with the striker needing no second invitation to double his tally.
The game was up less than three minutes later as Broadhurst converted a deep free-kick and while Aaron Forde was thwarted by keeper Tony McMillan, Paul McCone soon made it five from Forde’s corner on 63 minutes.
Glassboys: Gould, Christophorou (O’Callaghan, 81), Westlake, McCone, Pierpoint, Forde, Dodd (J Green, 65), Broadhurst, Archer (Rowe, 80), D Green, Tonks. Unused sub: Cooke.
