Yeovil Town 3 Leigh RMI 1 by Martyn Hindley: LEIGH RMI will be glad to see the back of Yeovil Town should they avoid a sensational collapse and lift the Conference title in six weeks time.

The Railwaymen have lost all six meetings with the Somerset side and, although little was expected of them at Huish Park last night, the defeat means they could start their next game at Telford on Saturday week in the relegation zone.

A 15-minute crowd congestion delay hardly helped Mark Patterson prepare his side for a game against a team who are of Third Division quality in all but title.

When play did get underway though, it was the lethal Kirk Jackson who put a slack RMI to the sword -- swivelling left-footed on a loose ball to open the scoring in the 18th minute and adding a second with a header from Darren Way's cross two minutes later.

Neil Durkin had slipped to let Way pounce for the second goal but Paul Williams' error for the third ten minutes before the break illustrated minor outbursts of panic in the Leigh ranks.

Kevin Gall ensured the semi-professionals were duly punished as Town eased into a three-goal lead.

The Greens dominated the first period and could have swept to a bigger advantage had Coburn not come to the rescue.

The ace shotstopper parried shots from Way, Gall and Michael McIndoe in a fraught opening quarter.

But Patterson will not let his troops lie down and, after withdrawing Ian Monk for Andy Heald in an early substitution, the gamble paid dividends.

Heald's venomous shot from 25 yards proved too hot for Chris Weale to handle and, as the ball spun away like a Shane Warne googly, Keith Scott hurled himself at the loose ball to pull one back.

Attacking was limited from either side after the break, with the closest effort being from Darren Way when his attempted hook his own bar from Durkin's free-kick produced a tremendous full-length stop from Weale.

Coburn was the busier of the two 'keepers though and, had it not been for him, Gall would almost certainly have left the field with a hat-trick to his name.

Leigh now have ten days to recover from this setback before travelling to Telford on March 22.