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Lancaster City kept alive their slim play off chances with a 3-0 home win over a spirited but limited Prescot Cables at a chilly Giant Axe. A sterile first half where virtually nothing happened apart from City taking the lead five minutes before half time. A mammoth long through by Bailey landed on skipper Marshall's head and found the back of the neyt beating Rupert Grint lookalike Tom Quinn in the Prescot goal.
Cables nearly levelled a minute later but the shot was delayed by a defensive tackle. That was the sum total of entertainment in a grim first half.
City's second goal just after the start of the second half killed the game, however not in keeping with the rest of the game it was a cracker. A quick free kick and Akrigg blasted home form 35 yards. From then on in it was a stroll, Cables offered little up front and Hale in the City game had an untroubled afternoon.
The third came from a rapid City breakaway following a tackle which the ball did well to survive the crunch between the two players, City escaped downn the right a canny pass to Winder saw him side foot the ball past Quinn to make it three.
Akrigg should have made it four near the end but wasted the chance. Easy peasy for the home side.



Lancaster City 3 Prescot Cables 0 Att 225