Lymington striker Phil Stone bagged five goals as Blackfield & Langley's hopes of avoiding bottom spot in the Wessex League took a huge blow.

Despite the boost of an early goal, third-from-bottom Blackfield were on the end of a 6-1 thrashing.

The size of the home defeat left Blackfield boss Tony Feeney lamenting: "If you have a good game plan but go out and perform like you're in the Southampton Senior League, then you get six goals put past you."

Blackfield, though, had begun with a real sense of urgency, raining shots in from all angles with the wind behind them. Their tactics paid dividends after 15 minutes when Kevin Love's chip sailed over a helpless Alan Walker-Harris.

But the Linnets were level five minutes later Lywhen Paddy James' delivery from the right was swept home at the back post by Stone. Home keeper Phil Kinally turned another Stone shot onto the bar shortly after, and Lymington hit the woodwork twice more - skipper Paul Towler the unlucky man on both occasions - as they started to get on top.

Blackfield's hopes were hit before half-time when top scorer Steve Wheatland was substituted due to a hamstring problem.

Lymington took the lead ten minutes into the second half through James, who had scored twice when the Linnets beat Blackfield 5-1 back in September.

From then on in it was the Phil Stone show as he bagged four more goals. On 70 minutes Ben Thomson's peristence set up Stone to volley his second past Kinally.

And then three more goals in the last five minutes sealed a comprehensive win.

Stone completed his hat-trick on 85 minutes with an emphatic volley after being set up by James.

The game was into injury-time when Stone first converted Trefor Smith's pass and then headed in from a corner.

Though he was the games' headline-maker, Stone was quick to pass to praise his team-mates.

"Paddy James was a different class - everyone was brilliant," he enthused.