Sleights return to form in cup thrashing

Sleights returned to winning ways in spectacular fashion as Beckett League Division Two Thornton Dale Reserves were put to the sword in the Gordon Harrison Memorial Trophy.

Marc Kipling celebrated his return to the side with a hat-trick, but he struck just once as the visitors carried a narrow 1-0 lead at half-time.

However, the second half saw Kipling quickly rack up his treble, with Taylor Humble making it 4-0, before Dale heads started to drop amid further goals from left-back Ben Wilson, substitute Matty Garbutt, Humble's second and the game's eighth goal from another sub, winger Will Cork-Dove.