Windscale delivered a massive improvement after their 4-1 defeat at home by Hartlepool last week when they resumed their Wearside League programme.
They travelled to Derwent Park to take on Annfield Plain, returning home with a clean sheet and eight goals to the good.
Those eight goals came in the last hour because it was 30 minutes into the game before the scoreboard registered a goal.
A corner from Lewis Jolly was not cleared and following a goalmouth scramble, Kieran Fraser slotted the ball home.
Fraser took just four minutes to add to his tally. Picking the ball up on the edge of the penalty area he delivered a curling left footed shot beyond the Annfield keeper into the top corner of the goal.
The game was by no means a one-sided affair as Annfield Plain created a number of chances, looking particularly dangerous on the break. They had an abundance of pace upfront, but their vulnerability was in the defensive elements of their game.
However, the Atoms were content with their two-goal lead as they headed to the changing rooms at the interval.
It was from the first play of the second period that Windscale increased their lead. A wicked delivery from a corner by man of the match Jolly, had the Plain’s defence at sixes and sevens and Matthew Pilkington stabbed the ball home from close range.
The score became 4-0 on the hour mark. Another well delivered corner from Jolly found Ross Leeson who rose to power a header beyond a static defence.
It was Leo Brennan who provided number five. A Reece Fretwell shot from the edge of the box could only be parried by the Annfield keeper and Brennan was on hand to fire the loose ball into the back of the net.
The score became 6-0 when Matthew Metcalf scored the goal of the game. Collecting the ball inside the centre circle, and spotting the keeper well off his line, Metcalf sent an audacious chip over the retreating custodians head.
It was substitute Darren Donald who finally brought the curtain down with two further goals. Picking-up the ball wide on the left, Donald clipped the ball over the head of the advancing keeper to notch the seventh.
With the referee looking at his watch, Donald completed the scoring, hitting a firm shot from the edge of the box to secure the 8-0 victory.
The Atoms take on fourth placed Durham Corinthians at the Falcon Complex next Saturday in a game that will surely be a much sterner test.
