Malvern Town 1, Dunstable Town 5 (From Malvern Gazette)

Malvern Town 1, Dunstable Town 5

3:21pm Wednesday 6th February 2008 in Sport

MALVERN crashed to a heavy defeat in Joe Rawle's first game in charge.

Despite having the first chance of the match, Malvern were 3-0 down inside 15 minutes.

In the third minute Chris Marsh rounded Malvern keeper Paul Wyatt and slotted the ball home, before Nick Perrin hit home his first of the match five minutes later.

Perrin netted his second on 15 minutes when he slotted home Marsh's cross from six yards.

Perrin missed the chance to get his hat-trick just before the break when he sent his free header sailing over.

The visitors made it 4-0 two minutes into the second period through Jonathan Barnett.

Things got worse for the Langland Stadium outfit as Joel Skyers handled the ball on the line. Skyers saw red and Marsh slammed home the 50th minute spot kick .

In the 70th minute a suicidal back pass by a Malvern defender saw Wyatt clear at Barnett's feet before he denied Michael O'Neill.

Malvern grabbed a late consolation when Tom Lacey netted a stoppage-time penalty.