Kendal Town suffered their heaviest defeat of the season last night, going down 5-0 at AFC Liverpool.
The Mintcakes stay 13th in the NWCounties Premier Division table while their hosts are fourth, cutting the gap on leaders Vauxhall to five points.
It was a harsh lesson for Jimmy Marshall’s side who rarely got going and conceded four second-half goals.
Their only one chance came in the first-half when top scorer Tom Kilifin was only inches away from sliding in to get on the end of a fizzed cross by skipper Rob Wilson.
Keeper Danny Roccia had made a couple of excellent saves before he was beaten in the 40th minute by Tom Douglas.
The game was virtually over within nine minutes of the second-half when the home side scored twice more.
On 52 minutes a cross from Elliott Hughes took a nick off a Kendal defender and looped over Roccia.
Then two minutes later Oliver Sanderson-Rigby let fly from distance and Roccia was beaten in his bottom right-hand corner.
Wilson wasn’t too far away with a free-kick which went just over but generally it was AFC Liverpool who dominated.
A Roccia save and a goal-line clearance by Tom Gamble kept it at 3-0.
The fourth goal came on 70 minutes when Douglas netted his second with a fine strike from outside the box.
Five minutes later the Merseysiders went nap when a simple ball across goal was banged home by Mark Madden.
Kendal will hope to get back on track on Saturday when they host New Mills in the third round of the Macron Cup.
New Mills currently lie ninth in First Division South.
