Wearside League basement club Durham City travelled across to West Cumbria with their situation not helped by having only ten players available for selection.
City have yet to win a game and had only scored two goals in their 12 League fixtures to date.
But as the old saying goes, ‘you can only play what’s in front of you’ and the Atoms went on to win 14-0.
They approached the game in exactly the right manner, giving due respect to the Durham players.
Despite these obvious handicaps it is credit to City that they accepted what was obviously going to be a difficult afternoon’s work. Such was their commitment that they restricted the score to 4-0 at the interval.
It was inevitable that fatigue would play a part in the second period. The imbalance in numbers allowed Windscale to add a further 10 goals to their tally before the final whistle.
Durham’s plight was not helped late in the game. With the score at 11-0, they had a player dismissed for a dangerous tackle, committed more in frustration than malice.
For the record, the Windscale goals came from a Lewis Jolly hat trick, Kieran Fraser, Ross Leeson and Reece Fretwell each with a brace, while Matthew Pierce, Lewis Selkirk, Cameron Carter, Joe Phillipson and Ben Graham all chipped in with a goal apiece.
In what will be a much closer game next week-end, the Atoms travel to take on Wolviston for their return league fixture.
