Kendal Town 5, Rossendale United 1.

The visitors had no answer to a Kendal Town side determined to put things right after Saturday's poor display at Spalding and the five goals could just as easily have been ten.

Town took the lead on five minutes, Lee Ashcroft's corner kick being headed onto the foot of the post by Nigel Taylor and David Foster on hand to tap in the rebound.

The lead was quickly cancelled out when Rossendale's Jamie Dalton took advantage of left-back Paul Rigby's failure to make a challenge and pulled the ball back from the bye-line for Ian Barker to fire into the to fire home.

Apart from that flurry Rossendale had little to offer and on 20 minutes Ashcroft intercepted a pass on the halfway line and scythed through the centre before unleashing a 30-yard drive into the top of the Rossendale net.

Nine minutes later it was the turn of Ricky Mercer to split the defence and score with a quality shot.

In a rain-lashed second half rampant Kendal squandered chance after chance before a long cross by midfielder Mike Jack saw Foster race in, steal the ball as keeper Paul Eatock and defender Phil Lockett hesitated and slide the ball into the empty net.

Foster was denied his hat-trick as he was substituted for Peter Smith, who came on to give a cameo performance on the right wing, bamboozling the tired defence time after time and delivering numerous dangerous crosses.

Eventually one such delivery sealed the game, Jack blasting it goalwards and left back Paul McMenemy appearing from nowhere to chest the beaten out shot over the line for goal number five.

It was a heartening performance to boost Town back into the top half of the UniBond League First Division and put them in good heart for Saturday's home tie with Premier Division outfit Prescot Cables in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup.