WIMBORNE Town kicked off their Southern South & West campaign in style with a 4-1 trouncing of Bishop’s Cleeve on Saturday.

The Magpies made light of some early jitters when Billy Maybury made the most of a fierce cross from summer signing Paddy Hester, guiding home a header after 10 minutes.

Matty Holmes’s men steadily settled and spent the rest of the half on the front foot before doubling their lead two minutes after the restart.

A five-man move was ended by Jamie Davidson’s silky touch but within seven minutes, the Mitres got back into the match when Mark McGee beat home keeper Patrick O’Flaherty one-on-one.

Cleeve created some pressure but no clearcut chances and Wimborne all but secured the spoils when Luke Holmes despatched a blistering 20-yard effort into the top left corner.

Substitute Josh Hartley rounded off the scoring with eight minutes to go following some neat approach play from Toby Holmes.

Magpies coach Shane Traynor said: “It took us 20 minutes to get into the game properly but we thought that might happen.“Once we had gained a foothold, we grew into the game and the players started to work the ball well.”

Magpies: O’Flaherty, Maybury, Hester (O’Sullivan, 89), Arnold, S Davidson, Kellaway, Stokoe, L Holmes, T Holmes, J Davidson (Hartley, 59), Bayston. Unused subs: Leonard, Randall, Benfield (g/k).