Luton Town Ladies kept up their title aspirations with an excellent 4-0 win at Wroxham Women on Sunday to stay four points behind leaders Royston.
The Hatters made three changes to the side that defeated Wroxham at Barton the previous weekend. Erin Price, Elly Wade and Gabriella Spillman replaced Bridget Adu, Fiona Buttigieg and Tanya Blacksley in the Town starting line-up.
Tasha Fensome almost opened the scoring just four minutes in but her attempted lob was tipped over the bar by the Wroxham goalkeeper.
Liz Mulvaney was next to have an attempt for the Town. Her effort, from just inside the area, was blazed over the bar.
Fensome had another opportunity on 25 minutes. An in swinging corner from Shianne Swarres was headered goalwards by the forward but into the hands of the goalkeeper.
On the stroke of half-time, Fensome’s thumping effort rippled the back of the net and gave Luton a well-deserved lead. The ball fell kindly to the number seven, following a Swarres cross and she made no mistake, almost taking the net off.
It was a lightning-quick start to the second-half for the Town who doubled their lead via Ami Martins. The forward, who made her Hatters debut last week, did well to capitalise on a moment of misfortune from the Wroxham keeper and poked the ball into an empty net.
On the hour mark, Martins cut inside on her right foot and then again on her left to set up Fensome, who saw her effort comfortably held.
Fensome then scored her second goal in the final minute. The ball was played out to the right-hand side to Mulvaney, who sent in an excellent cross, past the Wroxham defence and goalkeeper for Fensome to head in Luton’s third of the afternoon.
The scoring was then complete in the fifth minute of additional time when a high-press from Martins forced Wroxham into scoring an own goal.
Next up for the Hatters is a trip to North London to take on Enfield Town.
Town: Hudson, Swarres, Wade, Paci, Fensome, Mulvaney, Maddix, McKay, Spillman, Price, Lewis.
Subs: Robinson, Martins, Ndlovu, Tucker, Blacksley.
