Racing Club Warwick 1, Bromsgrove Sporting 10

CHRIS Conway bagged a hat-trick as title-chasing Bromsgrove Sporting put Racing Club Warwick to the sword.

This was very much an end of season encounter with Sporting needing three points to maintain their promotion challenge in the Midlands Division One, while Warwick had little to play for.

Conway set the tone of the match in the second minute when he side footed home from a Sean Brain cross.

Josh McKenzie then scored the second on six minutes with a header again via a cross from the right.

Sporting keeper Jake Bedford denied ex-Rousler Jake Brown, who had won the ball off Craig Jones and beaten two defenders with a mazy run.

The hosts pulled a goal back in the 38th minute, when Jamie Vadusz unleashed an unstoppable 20 yard strike, which Bedford had clawing at thin air as the ball went into the top corner of his net.

But Brain restored Bromsgrove’s two-goal lead when Brain teed up Conway for his second goal of the game.

The floodgates opened after half-time, when rampant Bromsgrove scored seven goals.

Seven minutes after the interval, Brain himself got a deserved goal when he turned 180 degrees to fire home Sporting's fourth.

In the 56th minute, Warwick keeper Conal Dowling was unlucky when he took the string out of substitute Jozsef Jakab's shot only to see it creep over the line for the fifth.

Brain scored from the penalty spot on 67 minutes after a handball and the frustration finally got to the Warwick manager Michael Heydon who was ordered out of the dugout for comments made to linesman over the incident.

Jakab scored number seven on 69 minutes, before Jack Wilson put away the best goal of the game with a 30-yard screamer.

Aaron Williams scored number nine on 79 minutes with a tap in at the far post then Conway finished his hat-trick and got Sporting's 10th with eight minutes to go when he fired Williams' cross low under Dowling.

Manager Paul Smith said: "It was a professional performance. We had to win and we did what we needed to do so I am pleased with the outcome and I was good to score a few goals.”

Sporting take on Atherstone away tomorrow night, hoping to keep the pressure on leaders Highgate and take the title race to the last game of the season next Saturday.

Warwick: Dowling, Campbell, Mason (Perry, 46), Powell, Buswell (Woodward, 57), Reynolds, Morton, Smith, Vadasz, Brown, Santos de Barros.

Subs not used: Reading, Turton.

Sporting: Bedford, Morris (Duggan, 58), Wilson, Fitter, Jones, Clarke (Adams, 53), Williams, Conway, Wills, McKenzie (Jakab, 53), Brain.

Subs not used: Smith, Delaney.

Referee Mr S Kavanagh (Rugby) Attendance: 175 Sporting Man of the Match: Chris Conway