CONISTON know the Benevolent Trophy is a chance of making something out of a mediocre season by their standards and put together a good display to have the measure of Windermere by a 5-2 margin.

Eighteen-year-old Phil Edmondson played up front alongside the experienced Stuart Walker, and the combination were responsible for three of the goals.

And with Peter Blair returning from injury to marshal the back four, it allowed Coniston to play a bit further up the field and apply the pressure convincingly.

Windermere had a fair bit of the ball but their final pass often failed to find the man and their tactics played into Coniston's hands, who hit them on the break and finished well.

Coniston were ahead after eight minutes when Rory Todd met Paul. Walker's low cross from the right on the edge of the box and drove it into the bottom corner.

Edmondson's dangerous pace then saw him break the Windermere offside trap before he finished into the top corner.

It was 3-0 after Paul Walker met Glen Todd's corner at the near post with a thumping header and Stuart Walker added a fourth with a shot that rattled both posts before going in.

Windermere did their best to put the doubt into opposition minds with two second-half goals, one from a penalty when Matthew Parkinson was brought down and Adam Thwaites converted the spot kick.

Thwaites also bagged the other with a low shot but Coniston steadied themselves and hit a fifth when Edmondson scampered clear again.

First division leaders Kendal County eventually stretched away from Second Division promotion-seekers Carvetii United for a 7-2 victory, but it was much closer than that up to half time.

County made a brisk start to go 2-0 up with Craig Walmsley meeting Gary Taylor's cross to tip a volley into the roof of the net. In the action again quickly Walmsley took a quick free kick for Dan Johnson to head home.

Carvetii lost their 18-year-old keeper Rob Huck with a hip injury and leading scorer Cylde Harris took over in goal, But they surprised County by pulling a goal back when Dan Robinson robbed the ball and fired past Ollie Parry.

Ollie Wilson cancelled out that goal when stand-in keeper Harris failed to hold Ollie Wilson's speculative shot, but the visitors replied when Robinson's square ball benefited from a dummy to find Andy Lockhart in space and he fired home.

The decisive turning-point for County came five minutes at the start of the second half from two setpiece free kicks on the edge of the Carvetii area.

Kris Klough's fierce shot took a deflection in off the wall and then Walmsley found a gap to roll another into the corner.

Back after the birth of his first child last week, Phil Hodgson's towering header made it 5-2 and then Dan Ferguson, deputising at full back, nipped in to score from another corner to complete the scoring.

A Lee Collins goal for Keswick four minutes from the end of extra time sealed Appleby's fate as they lost 1-0 in the quarter-finals.

Keswick had the edge in the first half but Appleby keeper Martin Armstrong kept his side in contention with some fine saves, including one full-stretch, fingertip effort.

Appleby's best chances fell to Richard Faustino with a cross-cum-shot and David Nugent, who saw his goal-bound free kick deflected over off a defender.

Appleby came back into the argument in the second half without creating a lot of chances. Ben Greenhow had a good sight of the target but could not get enough power on his shot to worry the keeper, and as the tie wore on it had extra time written all over it.

The teams were mentally preparing for a penalty shoot-out when Keswick counter-attacked down the right and Collins' stooping header converted a rare cross into the danger area.

Appleby had a strong shout for a penalty turned down when Greenhow was brought down.

Wetheriggs United had a fairly comfortably passage at home to Northbank Carlisle Reserves, with a 2-0 win.

Young Northbank keeper Adam Coward had a good game overall but he was left back-pedalling to collect a back-pass and fell over, allowing Matty Hutton to tap into an empty net.

The second goal came after the break when Steve Hall put Chris Clarke through one-on-one with the keeper and he steered the ball into the bottom corner.

Lunesdale United striker Chris Ellwood hit a memorable four-timer and Johnny Lowis bagged the other as they won 5-2 at Kendal Town Reserves in the league.

Saturday saw the first Jubilee Derby for several years, with Kendal Celtic beating Ibis Reserves 3-1.

Most of the first half was played out in midfield with few goal-scoring chances.

The game came to life when Ibis centre-back Coathup fired an unstoppable shot past Wicks in the Celtic goal from 30 yards out to put Ibis one-nil up.

In the second half Celtic took control of the game, Baldwin headed home to put Celtic level. Then goals from Milburn and Leigh put the game out of Ibis reach.

A single second-half goal from Peter Oran was enough to give holders Cartmel Reserves victory over a strong Lunesdale United Reserves in the second round of the Westmorland FA Junior Cup to move into the semi-finals.