Morecambe 3 Woking 0

FOUR points from two tough games have given Morecambe an early season boost as they look for another season of Nationwide Conference success.

Tuesday night saw them travel to the side which finished a place below them last season, Scarborough, in what could be the Yorkshire club's last ever game.

The Seadogs went ahead through Paul Ellender on 26 minutes, before Phil Eastwood put the visitors on level terms just before the break.

A 79th minute penalty put Scarborough on top again, with Simon Betts firing home before John Norman opened his account with an equaliser on 89 minutes.

On Saturday, Morecambe showed no opening day nerves as they comfortably swept past Woking at Christie Park.

The Shrimps, forced to make changes on the left hand side with Greg Brown and Andy Lyons injured, were rarely troubled at the back and took their chances well as they tore through Woking's five man defence.

New signing Steve Walters could have opened the scoring as early as the seventh minute, when his dipping drive bounced off the bar, leaving keeper Mark Ormerod stranded. John Norman had two half chances stopped by the former Brighton keeper, far and away Woking's best player on the day, before the Shrimps took the lead.

On 11 minutes, the returning Kenny Takano, in for the injured Lyons, found acres of space down the left hand side.

The little Japanese star fired in a pinpoint near post cross which Phil Eastwood took advantage of for the first goal of the new conference season.

On 26 minutes, Eastwood scored again, taking the ball on just outside the penalty area and running at the defence. A neat shimmy gave him enough space to hit a powerful angled shot across the goal and in at the far post.

Morecambe were knocking the ball around nicely now and Stewart Drummond's long range shooting could have put them further ahead, while a neat move which saw centre-half Dave McKearney carry the ball deep in to Woking territory before putting Takano through was halted by a harsh offside call.

Eastwood should have had a hat trick moments into the second half, but he made his first error, putting Takano's neat cross inches over the bar.

Woking looked more lively in the second half, with new signing Jae Martin keeping the Shrimps' defence busy.

But the livewire forward was replace after 65 minutes and Morecambe began to take an even tighter grip on the game, with Norman and Takano again denied.

However, on 88 minutes Morecambe's pressure paid off, When Norman squared the ball to Andy Heald who had time and space to fire past Ormerod.

Morecambe (4-4-2) Mark Smith 6, Andy Fensome 7, Mark Wright 7, Dave McKearney (C)7, John Hardiker 6, Steve Walters 7, Adriano Rigoglioso 6, Stewart Drummond 7, Phil Eastwood 8, John Norman 7, Keisuke Takano 8 Subs: Andy Heald (for Eastwood, 75) Paul McGuire (for Wright, 66) Chris Price (For Takano, 88), Leon Smith, Andy Banks

Star Shrimp: Phil Eastwood