THORNBURY Town lost out on second place in the Gloucestershire County League this season after they were beaten 5-0 by Henbury on Saturday, taking Henbury into second place above Frampton United.

The Thorns, in fourth place, only needed a win or draw to stay in the hunt but their hammering away at Henbury secured their fate.

They can finish in third if they go on a goal blitz at home to Rockleaze Rangers on Tuesday, needing to score 13 times against the fifth-placed team, in order to overhaul Frampton United, who currently occupy the third place spot.

But Saturday’s 5-0 win for Henbury was well justified against a much changed Thornbury Town side.

For the first 20 minutes of the game both sides crated very little then in the 21st minute Aaron Anglin missed a golden opportunity to give Henbury the lead when he headed wide with just Lippiatt to beat. Within a minute Anglin made up for that miss from the penalty spot after Kane Simpson had been brought down in the box.

Thornbury had a great chance to level on 32 minutes when the home keeper Jake Hannam miss-kicked the ball straight to Marcus Wormwell who was so surprised that he hit straight back to the keeper.

On 35 minutes Jack Mills opened up space and sent a great pass to Adam Rosser who then pulled his shot wide from the edge of the box.

Thornbury’s first real effort on goal came in the 37th minute a tremendous shot from 25 yards from Luke Franklin but Hannam got well behind it to save. 2 minutes into the second half Thornbury had a great chance to make it 1-1 when Craig Lancastle drove a low shot from a tight angle goal wards but Hannam brought off a fine save to deny the striker.

Henbury went 2-0 up on 50 minutes from a tremendous dipping shot from Jack Mills that left Lippiatt stranded.

It was 3-0 on 65 minutes as Scott Thomas headed home from a corner as the visitors keeper made no attempt to go for the ball. Thomas scored his second in the 77th minute picking up on a terrible piece of goal keeping from Lippiatt as he spilled the ball straight to Thomas to head home.

Henbury scored their fifth and final goal in the 83 minute after Lippiatt had pushed the ball out for a corner. The cross from the corner was met at the near post by Aaron Anglin to steer the ball into the net.