LAVERSTOCK and Ford booked their spot in the last eight of the Wiltshire Senior Cup after knocking out fellow high-flying rivals Amesbury Town 4-0.

Lavvy, whose tie attracted a decent crowd as many grassroots games fell foul of the weather, broke the deadlock on 18 minutes.

A quick fire back to front move resulted in Rob Gallagher being played through and he made no mistake of tucking home past the on-rushing Paddy Creese.

And it was 2-0 a minute later, Seb Dawes, making his return from injury, made no broke clear to finish coolly.

There was more to come before half time, man of the moment Russ Jones was quickest to react to a handling error by Creese and smashed home his side's third.

Amesbury stepped up the pressure in the second half and came close on several occasions, but found Alexis Aguer, in place for the injured Acer Burton, in fine form. Jones should have killed the game off when clear on goal but squandered the chance.

But he wrapped things up midway through the second half when he rounded Creese, netting his 12th of the term.

Amesbury had a chance for a consolation with a spot kick but in-form Danny Finnigan saw his effort saved.

Joint management team of Robbie Lakeman and Liam McConnell praised their troops.

They told JournalSport: "At times it wasn't pretty but in the first half we showed how clinical we should be week-in-week-out."

"Chances were created and, more importantly, they were taken. Of course we had to defend well at times, they're one of the favourites to win our league and we know they have quality but Phil Morgan, yet again, led the defensive unit, superbly."

Opposite boss Gareth Horner lamented: "We gifted them all four goals which is disappointing as it's something we haven’t done so far this year."

"We asked for a reaction in the second half and we got one, creating five or six chances within ten minutes of the restart but found their keeper in fine form as well as hitting the woodwork."

"We could probably still be there now and we wouldn’t have scored. We will have to put it down as one of those days and make amends when we visit The Dell next year."