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PRESCOT were left wondering how they lost this game after a string of chances went begging.

Early efforts for Prescot came from Rudd and Lynch which Fleetwood keeper Clowes saved. Fleetwood then had four chances. Prescot keeper Dahl saved the first effort, but they scored from the other threeas the Prescot defence was caught napping.

The first goal came when the ball went across the area for Archbold, unmarked on the back post, to score. The second came from a free kick when Vickers rose unchallenged and headed home from 10 yards out.

Vickers got the third when he was first in at the near post to flick he ball past Dahl.

Prescot then took complete control of the game. O'Callaghan had three efforts before half-time. The first was blocked by a dfender, the second he put past the keeper to pull a goal back and the third was saved by Clowes.

In the second half, Prescot laid seige to the Fleetwood goal and had 20 attempts on goal. A Taylor effort was somehow cleared off the line by a defender, Clowes made five good saves, including a marvellous tip over from a Lynch header, and the Fleetwood defenders blocked six shots.

The remaining eight attempts were off-target, with half of them attributable to poor finishing. Cheadle Town 1

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The sparse midweek crowd at Cheadle was treated to a fine display of open attacking football.

In the opening minutes Lynch had a shot cleared off the line by a Cheadle defender, and Prescot keeper Dahl made a good save from Wilson. O'Callaghan opened the scoring after nine minutes with a volley from 20 yards.

The Cheadle keeper made three fine saves to deny O'Callaghan and Lynch twice before Cheadle equalised through Wilson after 36 minutes.

Prescot were back in front three minutes later with an own goal when a defender tried to cut out a cross from O'Callaghan. O'Callaghan netted twice in the second half, on 49 and 63 minutes, to complete a hat-trick with Lynch gettingthe fifth after 71 minutes as Prescot controlled the game.