Mickleover Sports 0 Spennymoor Town 5.

Spennymoor recorded their second successive away win in emphatic style to put them seventh in the table.

After slipping up badly at Whitby, Moors have recovered well by winning at Halesowen and Mickleover, and now they’re just a point behind the play offs with games in hand.

Manager Jason Ainsley said; “It was a brilliant result, we played some very good football. We would certainly have taken this result before the game, and that’s now given us back-to-back away wins, which has been our Achilles heel this season. We’ve seemed to play well in one away game and then not so good the next, but this was different.

“The man of the match was their keeper, which didn’t surprise me because he made four or five great saves. We scored the first goal and got off to a good start. It’s important now that we build on this against Matlock on Tuesday night.”

Moors went close in the opening minutes, but the Mickleover keeper Nick Draper somehow kept out Graeme Armstrong’s header, but he had no chance with the opening goal after 19 minutes, a peach of a free kick by Kallum Griffiths that flew into the top corner.

It was 2-0 when Graeme Armstrong did well to send Mark Anderson running through to score, and then Armstrong got the third in a goalmouth scramble on 33 minutes after a header by James Curtis was blocked.

Mickleover had defender Tom Burgin sent off for a foul, and again Moors were denied when Draper pulled off great saves from Armstrong and Shane Henry.

Sub Rob Ramshaw fired the fourth after a Draper mistake with a couple of minutes left, and in stoppage time he tapped in the fifth.

Team: Lowson, Griffiths, Mason, Chandler, Watson, Curtis, Mitchell (sub Ramshaw), Henry, Armstrong (sub Taylor), Dowson, Anderson (sub Johnson). Subs not used: Fisher, Smith.

Blyth meanwhile, remained ten points clear at the top after they beat bottom club Skelmersdale 4-0 at Croft Park. Dan Maguire (2), Luke Armstrong and Jordan Watson scored the goals.

Whitby drew 0-0 at Stafford Rangers, so they dropped down to sixth, a point above Moors.