Zamaretto Southern Premier.

Cirencester Town 5, Halesowen Town 0.

JODY BEVAN scored three goals – one for each of the headbands he was wearing to protect a nasty head wound picked up at Stourbridge on Saturday – as Cirencester added to the woes of relegation-threatened Halesowen.

With just one win since the turn of the year and a deduction of four points as a result of the demise of Windsor & Eton, Town were looking vulnerable themselves. But they have been playing better than recent results suggest and they patiently took the Yeltz apart with ruthless efficiency.

Abingdon United keeper Alan Foster donned the gloves in the absence of Matt Bulman, who has a fractured rib, and Ciren were further disrupted by an injury to left back Tom Etheridge who had to go off after 24 minutes.

But the changes were seamless. Young Development squad player Jamie Dunn did not look out of place when coming on for Etheridge and Foster, a spectator for most of a one-sided game, had just two saves to make.

He spilled a shot in the slippery conditions from Michael McGrath in the 20th minute and was bailed out by an alert Lyndon Tomkins, but he did make a crucial save from the pacy Justin Nisbitt soon after the restart, and before his side had truly put the game out of Halesowen’s reach.

But the night belonged to campaign veteran Bevan as he bagged his second hat-trick of the season.

In the ninth minute, he neatly volleyed home inside the six-yard box when a half-cleared corner rebounded into his path.

His second goal owed everything to young right back Zak Westlake who appears back to his marauding best.

A nicely weighted Justyn McKay pass meant the already overlapping Westlake did not have to break stride down the right. At full tilt, the youngster pushed the ball one side of Halesowen’s Alan Robinson while running around the other to collect the ball and hit a firm shot which Simon Flower parried. Sniffer Bevan was on hand to net the rebound.

Ciren were good value for their 2-0 half-time lead and no one could argue when a near-post Bevan toe-poke made it 3-0 in the 70th minute.

With the energetic McKay becoming increasingly influential and making sure Ciren did not coast, Bevan’s strike partner Mark Draycott maintained his excellent strike rate since joining the Centurions with the other two goals.

The first on 77 minutes was a header from a yard out after James Mortimer-Jones had rounded the keeper and chipped back from the byeline.

The two combined again for a peach of a fifth goal in the 86th minute. Draycott, carefully staying onside, played Mortimer-Jones through the Yeltz back line and then galloped forward to take the return pass inside the box before finishing emphatically.

A good night all round for the Bevan boy and his colleagues.

Cirencester: Foster, Westlake, Etheridge (Dunn, 24), Sysum, McKay, Tomkins, Wood, Mortimer-Jones, Bevan (Thompson, 72), Hoskin (Brown, 79), Draycott. Unused subs: Reid, Dunton.

MoM: Jody Bevan.