TOM Broadbent smashed four past Malpas as Alsager Faculty trounced their hosts 5-0 on Saturday. Ben Gibson added the fifth.

Second-placed Winnington Avenue also managed a win but they had to battle to defeat Bentley 2-1. Chris White and Steve O'Malley netted for Avenue, with Dyson Leitch replying.

Sandbach and Winnington Reserves played out an amazing 4-4 draw. Ian Prendergast and Gary Johnson bagged a brace apiece for Sandbach, but Steve Pickett (2), Mike Bunby and Gary Nelson levelled it for Winnington.

The games between Curshaws and Winsford IPC, and Congleton Athletic and Sandbach Town, were called off due to bad weather.