Ash Flynn is up to 40 goals this season after scoring three in the 11-1 demolition of Lincoln Moorlands. Picture: Mark Parsons
AFC Emley hit double figures for the second Saturday running after an expected hammering of perennial crisis club Lincoln Moorlands Railway.
Whilst not quite reaching 13 goals again, Emley won 11-1 and in doing so, the Welfare Grounders entered the Toolstation NCEL Division One play-offs.
Ashley Flynn scored a hat-trick, with the first of those goals bringing up 40 for the season, whilst Alex Slack and Kieran Ryan both got doubles.
Michael Tunnacliffe, Tom Brennan, Jordan Coduri and Sam Scrivens also found the net, with Adam Reeve netting for the away side.
The hosts dominated the game, but struggled to convert chances early on, with Ryan hitting the post and Tunnacliffe turning an effort wide with the goal gaping.
The captain atoned for his miss not soon after, as he was afforded space and time in the area and picked his spot, finding the top left after Ryan showed some good strength in the build up.
The lead was doubled when Ruben Jerome broke down the right, before the ball found Ryan whose good footwork created some space to have a shot which was parried by the Lincoln goalkeeper Liam Joyce straight into the path of Coduri, who simply couldn’t miss.
Tom Brennan made it three soon after, as Robbie Graham’s cross from the left found the centre back’s head, and he clinically dispatched it into the bottom corner.
Ryan then got a quick-fire double, as Jerome ran down the by-line and pulled it back to the number 10, who duly converted. He then finished off a nice move down the left, as Danny Ryan found Flynn who was fouled, but managed to flick it through to Alex Hallam as the referee played advantage, and Hallam found Ryan who made it five.
Flynn then got his name on the scoresheet, as Ryan’s pass was dummied by Hallam, leaving Flynn with space and he made no mistake, easily tucking the ball past Joyce to make it 40 for the season, and 6-0 to Emley before the break.
Lincoln weren’t completely lifeless on this Halloween weekend, managing to get a goal back before half time, as an initial shot was blocked on the line, but it fell to Adam Reeve who found a gap to reduce the arrears and spoil Emley’s clean sheet.
The second half began with another Emley goal, as Flynn and Tunnacliffe’s passing exchange in the area ended with Flynn firing past Joyce to make it seven.
The striker then brought up his hat-trick, following more good work from Ryan who muscled his way into the area and drove it across goal, with Flynn able to get on to it and power it home.
Substitute Sam Scrivens joined in with the goalscoring, finding the bottom corner from the left hand side to make it nine.
Fellow substitute Alex Slack made it double figures as a cross from the right evaded everyone in the area apart from Slack, who slammed it into the back of the net past a helpless Joyce.
Slack ended the scoring with his second, and Emley’s eleventh, of the game, as Paul Spicer, another substitute, sent a corner over from the right, finding the head of Slack and he in turn found the goal via the underside of the bar.
In truth it could have been more, with Joyce making some good saves to deny Coduri and Ryan, as well as some efforts going just wide from Jerome and Flynn.
Alex Mackinder could have scored a second for Lincoln, who remain bottom, but he could only put the ball over the bar after being picked out in the centre.
AFC Emley: Lawlor, Coduri, D Ryan, Graham, Brook, Brennan, Tunnacliffe (captain), R Jerome, Flynn, K Ryan, Hallam. Subs: S Jerome, Slack, Scrivens, Spicer, Horsman.
Thanks to Josh Lindley for this report.