Robins see off Trafford

Ashton duly booked their place in the first Qualifying round of this season's FA Trophy after an ultimately convincing win against their local neighbours at the Awaydaycare Shawe View Stadium.

Trevon Bryan's loan period had been extended for the Robins and it took just 6 minutes for him to make his mark as his right foot cross found James Hardy in space to place his header home.

Three minutes later right winger Bryan went one better as he cut inside before placing a left foot effort perfectly inside the far post with no challenge forthcoming. On 25 minutes the visitors went close again as Benny Couto's driven cross saw Hardy's return ball narrowly miss any connection and Rio Clegg made space at the other end turning on to Isaac Noble's cross befor Josh Doherty made an important block.

5 minutes before the break the hosts won a lifeline as Clegg was brought down at the second attempt by Sean Newton with the centre forward seeing his penalty well saved by O'Keefe dropping to his right. 4 minutes before the hour mark Doherty's left wing cross saw sub Jason Gilchrist head the ball back for Hardy to nod home his second and 3 minutes later Luke Burke's square pass saw Couto's left foot effort come back off the underside of the crossbar.

4 minutes later another sub Jak McCourt was booked and from the resulting free kick ex-FC United winger Jerome Wright curled his effort home over the wall. Ashton soon restored their advantage as Hardy was robbed for a corner which saw McCourt's return ball force Damola Satona into conceding an own goal. Clegg was the fouled by Dan Cowan with Ryley Smith's delivery glanced just past the far post by Jordan Fagbola before Burke's pull back saw McCourt's effort land somewhere in the vicinity of the Trafford Centre.

Entering added time the home side pulled another one back as Rob Worrall's run saw Kanye Nisbett slide his effort home close in and the scoring was completed as a free kick led to McCourt playing a 1-2 with Tom Denton before finishing into the far corner.