Cronton Villa 8 – 3 Fife Rangers

Fife suffered a humiliating defeat today as they were trounced by fellow strugglers Cronton Villa and with it their faint relegation survival hopes continue to distinguish.

Striker Daniel Whalley ran riot against the Rangers defence as he continued his fine goal scoring run, with an impressive hat-trick against the Blues.

Fife enjoyed the better of the opening stages of the game taking a 1-0 lead when Samuel Morris found himself unmarked at the back post after a good pull back from Leon Padget to tap in.

The lead didnt last long though after slack marking allowed a through ball to cut the two center backs in Ryan Doodson and Michael Duane apart for Whalley to calmly finish past Scott Cameron in the Rangers goal.

Whally then doubled his tally on the half hour mark crashing home from 5 yards out and then completing his hat-trick just before half time with an impressive solo goal from 25- yards out leaving Cameron with no chance.

From a result of this goal just before half-time, Rangers seemed to let their heads drop and it was after half time that Cronton seemed to up their game and start playing with a lot of confidence. In 25 minutes, Rangers conceded 5 unanswered goals as the home side ran riot.

Two consolation goals from Morris and Padget brought the game to a more respectable scoreline, but it was still a dissapointing Easter afternoon for the Blues after the result now leaves them eight points behind Cronton with just 7 games to go.

Club Captain John Farrell has called for his team-mates to show some pride and at least put some points to their league table tally, in their first season back in the Warrington Premier Division.

He said: “Its obviously been a hugely disappointing season for us, but after losing so many key players from our league championship last season, this season was always going to be a learning curve for a lot of our new, young side.

“Hopefully we will be able to get as many points as we can from now until the end of the season and see where it takes. If we dont manage it, we will certainly come back a lot better side next season.”

By Danny Burthem

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