OPENING weekend winners FC North Wiltshire were brought back down to earth with a bang as they were thumped 6-0 at FC Lacock in the Premier Division of the Chippenham & District Sunday League.
All the goals came in the second half as Josh Hard bagged a hat-trick, Billy Gleed scored twice and Rory Davis the other.
AFC Melksham clinched a 1-0 victory over Box Rovers, the only goal of the game coming on 30 minutes when Adam Mitchell turned home a Brett Partner cross.
North Star Club and FC Bradford were looking to chalk up their first win of the season, the latter doing so thanks to a 5-2 triumph.
Bradford fell behind to a Mike McKeller effort, but turned things around to lead 3-1 at the break, Mark Robinson and Jimmy Meade netted twice and Harry Hamlin added a penalty as Mike McKeller and Tom King replied for Star.
Last term's top-flight runners up Pheasant FC visited Semington FC for their opener and clinched a 4-0 success, Nick Ridout's brace, Mark Dolman and Max Wyatt with the goals.
Ten-man Bath Road lost out 2-0 at Westbury Rangers as Ashley Kinkead and Chris Steele wrapped up the points..
THE Foresters Arms suffered a 2-1 Division One loss at Westbury Railway, for whom Simon Kent and Jamie Hancock netted, Gary Higdon's reply being not enough.
Bromham followed up their opening day win over Fox & Hounds with a 5-0 victory against new-look FC Libby.
Ryan Bole's hat-trick, Sam Wallis and debutant Jamie Hall did the damage.
Trowbridge-based Faded's clash with Kingfisher finished 4-4.
Nassem Abourachid, Ali Jaffari and Zack Manna's brace netted for Faded, Andy Rose, James Hackett and Luke Carr's double with the replies.
Debutant Sean Horobin scored four times as New Inn Wacker came from behind to beat Fox & Hounds (Warminster) 7-3.
Myles Woodward, Justin Precce and Rob Christopher on debut scored for the Fox, Ashley Palmer, Owen Gardner and Steve Badger with the others for New Inn.
Brunel FC were upset 2-1 by Sutton Benger, for whom James Weston and a first goal for the club for Gregor Evans netted before Ryan Jenkins' reply.
A week after they met each other in the Wiltshire Sunday Cup, Sporting Box and White Hart locked horns again in Division Two, Sporting avenging their cup loss with a 3-0 victory.
Carlos Citara, Patrick Cunningham and Adam Greeves were on target.
Old Road FC got their season underway with a 2-2 draw at Biddestone.
Jack Greenhaigh and Ryan Armstrong’s late equaliser for Biddestone came either side of Matthew Poole and Aiden Burke's goals for Road.
Trowbridge rivals Lion & Fiddle and Gloucester Conservative met, with Lion clinching a resounding 7-2 success.
Aaron Burbidge and Nick Mead netted for Cons, but debutant Leon Greenland's hat-trick, Dan Price, Kierran Ramsey, Joe Cunningham and Adam Mercer shared Lion's goals.
Warminster-based Wednesday Warriors suffered a second successive heavy defeat to Worton & Cheverell, losing 6-1 a week after a 14-1 thrashing.
Adam Bewley, Ali Bradley's hat-trick and Rob Drown's brace did the damage, Ben Bullus pulling a goal back.
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