RADLIFFE BORO 4 WORKINGTON 1 THE scoreline suggests that Kevin Glendon's side has returned to top form, but far from it according to club football secretary David Murgatroyd.

"We didn't play particularly well," he said. "It was certainly a good result but we have played a lot better recently."

Boro went behind on 15 minutes but on 31 minutes Andy Graham finally broke his goalscoring barren run. Fellow striker Joe Connor topped a scintillating display with two cracking second half strikes after an unfortunate Workington defender had given Boro the lead on 63 minutes with an own goal. ATHERTON COLLS 2 MAGHULL 2 ATHERTON Colls' promotion challenge was maintained with a fine home win over Maghull at Alder House.

Steve Walton and Ian Lamb's side made sure the leaders have to keep looking over their shoulders as the unbeaten league run was stretched to eight games since the start of the season.

Paul Cameron hit his fourth goal in seven days. Gary Henshaw got the opener and the winner came from highly promising newcomer Mike Lewis. Keith returns and does the trick BLACKPOOL MECHANICS 0 DAISY HILL 1 DAISY Hill manager Jimmy Hulton spotted a resurgence in enthusiasm in striker Keith Daley in midweek training, put him back in the side for the visit to Blackpool Mechanics and it paid off when he hit the only goal of the game on 70 minutes.

Alan Morris picked up the Air Products man on the Match Award. Ramsbottom miss chances MIDDLEWICH ATHLETIC 2 RAMSBOTTOM UTD 1 A PHILOSOPHICAL club secretary John Maher summed up his side's 2-1 defeat at Middlewich as "Just one of those games!"

"You don't get anything if you create a bucketload of chances and don't put them away," he said. "We had a goal disallowed early on for a dubious offside decision and then on 16 minutes went behind against the run of play. We camped out in their half but it was the 71st minute before we equalised through Martin Hulme.

"Still chances went begging as we went searching for a winner and we were just beginning to contemplate two dropped points when they broke forward and our keeper was adjudged to have fouled their lad. They scored from the penalty and that was it - all three points gone!"

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