Stourbridge 3, Stratford Town 0

STOURBRIDGE picked up their first victory of the season with a comfortable success over Stratford Town at Amblecote.

Goals from Aaron Hayden, Greg Mills and Leon Broadhurst got their home campaign off to the perfect start.

After an even start it was the visitors that forced the first save of the evening when William Grocutt forced James Wren to tip an effort from range over the bar after six minutes.

That was as good as it got for the visitors as the Glassboys soon began to dominate.

Stour broke the deadlock just four minutes later when defender Hayden rose unmarked at the far post to head home Mills' corner.

Mills carried the Glassboys' threat down the left early on and it was the winger that set up his side's second on 17 minutes.

His drilled low ball was powerfully met by Luke Benbow but James Behan reacted brilliantly to keep it out. However, the ever-reliable Broadhurst was on hand to fire home the loose ball and double Stour's advantage.

The home side continued to cause problems as Benbow, Mills and Robert Thompson-Brown linked up approaching the half hour mark.

Mills had the beating of Stratford full-back and he made it three on 32 minutes with a sublime curling effort after cutting onto his right foot rom the due of the box.

The visitors had a chance to pull one back in injury time but Grocutt's free-kick from 25-yards was easily tipped over by Wren.

Stour continued on the front foot in the second half and were again the quickest to snap into challenges and the first to any loose balls.

They still needed Wren to preserve their advantage as he tipped over a sharp header from sub Jordan Williams just before the hour mark.

Town kept things much tighter in the second half but the clash also become more evenly balanced as Stour remained happy to sit on their three-goal advantage.

The Glassboys will go in search of another three points when Rushden and Diamonds visit Amblecote this Saturday.

Stourbridge: Wren, Hayden (Pierpoint 63), Brown, McCone (c), Duggan, Forde, Birch (Anderson 72), Broadhurst, Benbow, Thompson-Brown (Evans 79), Mills.

Unused subs: Edmonds-Hill, Maher.

Stratford: Behan, Cox, Westwood, Fry (c), Maslen-Jones (Dias 63), McAteer, Powell, Grocutt, Ahenkorah, Carvalho (Williams 45), Isaac (Taylor 58).

Unused subs: Luckie, Wilson.

Att: 733.