Scarborough 2 Leigh RMI 5 by Martyn Hindley

Leigh RMI certainly enjoyed their day by the Seaside as they hammered bottom club Scarborough to ease away from the Conferencedrop zone.

Steve Waywell's men - criticised by Brian Little for their negative tactics at Hull City - took the lead in slightly fortuitous fashion after just eleven minutes.

Andy Heald's left-wing cross found its way into the net with the help of a red-faced Paul Newton in the Scarborough goal and the margin was doubled soon after when Dino Maamria was stopped in his tracks by Aaron Wilford, but kept his composure to slam home the resulting penalty.

Leigh continued to press forward with a sense of urgency and Tony Black went close to making it three on the half hour mark when his low shot skidded agonisingly wide of the target. That privilege was reserved forIan Monk, who executed a brilliant lob over Newton after cutting inside from the right-flank eight minutes before half-time.

Scarborough had only won one of their eight league games at the McCain Stadium prior to Saturday's fixture and they looked a beaten team with the advent of Monk's strike. However, they managed to haul themselves back into contention with a goal from Steve Brodie two minutes before the interval. Brodie was unmarked six yards out tostab home after Mark Swales had done all of the hard work on the right-hand side.

The game followed a similar pattern to last season's FA Cup tie, but any thoughts of a spectacular recoveryfrom the Yorkshiremen were crushed five minutes into the second half when Tony Black completed a superb passing move in midfield bypowerfully heading home Neil Fisher's sublime cross.

Scarborough were playing for damage limitations from that moment onwards and grabbed another consolation when Stuart Elliott drilled home from twenty yards. Leigh's contribution to the game was far from finished though as Maamriafinished the game as it had started - the former Southport striker breaking free of the defence tocoolly slot home a fifth - Leigh's biggest away league win in their short Conference career.