PHIL Simkin was delighted his Hammers team were temporarily able to put aside their FA Cup dreams and dump Elmore out of the Vase.

Simkin was worried his players would still have been on cloud nine after beating Bishop's Cleeve 1-0 in midweek to fix up a lucrative home cup-tie against Eastleigh next Saturday.

But a first-half strike from Steve Gilbert, followed by goals by Warren Byerley, Karl Mutch and Carl Chivers after the break, eased his concerns.

Simkin, whose side booked a third qualifying round home date against Newton Abbot, said: "The boys came back down to earth and put in a good shift.

"This was a difficult game for us. It wasn't as easy as the scoreline suggests because the lads still had tired legs from playing extra time on Wednesday.

"It was only 1-0 at half time. It was only in the second half really that we dominated, but we got the job done."

Gilbert got on the end of Micky Hubbard's corner to give Hammers a 25th-minute lead.

With United goalkeeper Martin Peters largely untroubled, Byerley met another Hubbard cross to make it 2-0 from close range on the hour.

Mutch headed in at the far post before Chivers connected with yet another Hubbard cross to volley home from 16 yards and complete the scoring.

Hamworthy United: Peters, Gilbert, Grimason, Williams, Walker, Dovell (Middleton 75), Legg, Hubbard, Mutch (Chivers 70), Byerley (Swann 70), Jackson. Unused sub: Horlock.