Warminster Town 1, Cadbury Heath 4: Warminster Town manager Gerry Pearson is to step up his search for a new striker after he was left stunned and disappointed by his team's performance in the 4-1 loss to lowly Cadbury Heath.

Cadbury Heath had not won a game all season before this encounter, and this result leaves Warminster in the bottom three. Manager Pearson admitted: "It's going to be a tough task now."

So far this season, Pearson has praised the performance of his team, despite his players not delivering the results. "Other than that match, we've played some good football this season," he said. "The main problem is that we've only scored five in eight games. That is not good enough."

"We've known since the start of the season that we needed a striker, and we're still not taking the chances."

Despite being the first team to fall to Cadbury Heath, Pearson believes his side can quickly bounce back to try and get out of their troublesome league position.

"I don't think this will damage our confidence," he said. "Our next opponents, Frome, have lost five or six on the trot. We've lost the last three, but believe we can end that run."

The main problem still seems to be the lack of an out-and-out goalscorer, and that still remains Pearson's priority in the transfer market. "We're always looking to improve the squad," Pearson insisted. "We've been short of a striker all season, and other than that department we're playing well."

Warminster's start-of-season aim was a mid-table finish, but even manager Pearson admits that this aim is looking like a distant dream. "A mid-table finish isn't looking likely at the minute," said an honest Pearson. "That's what we have to work towards, but my job is to make sure we stay in this division. It's early days yet, we've only played eight, and we've got time to turn our season round."

Cadbury Heath were jubilant after the game after creating history for their club in recording their first win in the Western League.

In the first half, Warminster made life very difficult for themselves and Cadbury Heath capitalised on some poor work to take a 3-0 lead at the break.

Their first goal came in the 16th minute with a fine strike from Gary Thomas after Ian Day had played the ball back to him. Four minutes later, Day set up Mark Lippiatt with a long drive from 30 yards which Warminster goalkeeper James Smith reached with his left hand as it swerved away from him. The ball landed in the six yard box and Paul Bernard was the first to react and slotted it home.

The third goal came after 37 minutes and was scored by Ian Day following a cross from the right.

Worse was to follow when Warminster defender Pete Copeland was sent off a minute before half-time a decision that amazed all at the ground because no-one had seen the alleged offence other than one of the assistant referees.

Warminster were the better side for the first part of the second half and Jon Hayter reduced the arrears in the 53rd minute when he was put through by Gerry Pearson. John Delahaye then had a header cleared from in front of goal.

Cadbury Heath came back again and Smith saved well from Bernard when he was clean through.

Cadbury Heath wrapped up the game after 83 minutes when Day scored his second goal.

Tomorrow, Warminster travel to Frome Town at 3pm.

Keynsham Tn 3, Corsham Tn 1

CORSHAM Town player-manager Rob Humphries is planning changes after a second successive disappointing performance

"A 3-1 away defeat to the league leaders may seem an acceptable result to some people, but it was a bit disappointing as I thought we should do well against teams like Keynsham," said Humphries.

"We were poor against Cadbury Heath in the previous game, so perhaps it's time to freshen things up a bit so people don't get to rest on their laurels."

Humphries, who missed the Keynsham game after having his wisdom teeth removed, is likely to return.

Corsham took the lead after 19 minutes when Dave Kilmurray slotted through for Chris Weeks to net.

Keynsham levelled through Silverthorne and went in front with a neat goal from Neil Harris.

Player-manager Paul Hirons came on and slotted the ball through to Matt Sweet to score.

Humphries said: "We took the lead somewhat against the run of play, but then had a good 20-minute spell when we could have scored three or four more goals.

"But then we went to sleep just before half-time and gave away a silly goal and in the second half, sloppy play in midfield led to Keynsham's second goal. They scored their third when we were pushing forward chasing the game."