BEING out of the FA Cup early on is proving to be a bonus for Maldon & Tiptree as they continued their good league form with this excellent win to maintain their fourth place in the division.
Sitting with 14 points in the bag they are just two points behind leaders with two game sin hand.
In this game on Saturday they dominated proceedings and in all reality could have won by a more comfortably bigger margin.
With the experienced Jamie Guy leading the front line he gave them the lead on 20 minutes showing great composure in the box to rifle the ball into the net.
The home side found it a constant struggle to contain Maldon & Tiptree forwards as they went on the rampage for more goals.
Joe Gardner had the best chance to increase their lead shortly before the interval following good work by Ben Bradbury but he put his header wide of the target.
The only surprise to anyone watching was that it took the visitors until the 61st minute to add their second which came courtesy of Frankie Everitt, back at the club, who capitalised on some confusion in them home area to drive the ball low into the net.
The third goal for the visitors came in injury time when James Robinson netted to give the final scoreline a more realistic result.