Skem relegated as Buxton soar

BUXTON stayed in the hunt for a play-off place with a five star second-half show at strugglers Skelmersdale.

The Bucks took the lead just before the interval, before the game turned on the 47th minute dismissal of Skelmersdale’s Michael Vaughan-Muscat, within seven minutes it was 3-0 and by the 65th minute it was 5-0 as a rampant Buxton just swept the hapless hosts aside.

The initial 40 minutes were scrappy with neither team managing to get any kind of

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momentum going.

That changed on 41 minutes, when after a clumsy challenge on Joel BemboLeta, Jamie Green fired a low skimming free-kick just inside the post to make it 1-0 to the visitors.

Thirty seconds after the break Skem’s Remy Howarth fired high and wide, before at the other end Glen Cameron cleared off the Skem line.

On 47 minutes a long ball caught Skem out and Alastair Taylor was tripped by Vaughan-Muscat, unfortunately it brought his second yellow and off he went.

In the 51st minute, Greg Young converted with a diving header from Green’s corner, then two minutes later Bradley Grayson lashed home a low shot after Skem didn’t clear another Green corner to make it 3-0.

Just after the hour Green’s lethal left-foot found Joe McGee’s head to make it 4-0 before substitute Liam Hardy headed home on 65 minutes from a helped on free-kick from the impressive Green.

It could be said that Buxton took their foot off the gas a bit after the fifth, but Hardy still managed to make it six 12 minutes from time with a volley from Taylor’s cross.

Buxton sit seventh in the table, three points behind sixth-place Whitby Town having played a game less.

Skem meanwhile saw their relegation confirmed.