Dunsborough 5 beat Margaret River 1
 
 The Dunsborough Towners were at their attacking best at the expense of Margaret River running riot to win their first round clash of the South West Football Association Pioneer knockout cup 5-1 at the Bunbury Superdrome on Sunday.
 
 However, the margin should have been more emphatic such were the chances that the Towners created in what was one-way traffic for most of the game.
 
 Certainly Margaret River’s goalkeeper Michael Hibberd can shoulder much of the credit for restricting the scoreline with a number of well-timed saves to shots that had goal written all over them.
 
 But far too often Dunsborough were their own worst enemy in failing to substantially increase the tally having cruised through Rivers’ defence almost at will with the goal at their mercy.
 
 Indeed when the Towners scored what may be the fastest goal of the season in the
 South West competition at the 26 second mark there were instant thoughts of at least emulating the 8-1 victory they inflicted on Bunbury Dynamo earlier in the year.
 
 It was superb move with midfielder Niel Muckles winning the ball in his own half and then chipping it perfectly down the right wing over Rivers’ defence for the speedy Graeme Copeman to run to the bye-line and release a first time high cross.
 
 Waiting to intercept was tall Joe Pregelj who headed home from point blank range with Hibberd caught out back-peddling thinking the ball was going to drop at the far post.
 
 The power and accuracy of his passes of Muckles in midfield was exceptional in wet and windy conditions being well supported by fellow midfielders Joe Peachey and Stuart Gidley.
 
 It was a fine piece of midfield play that provided the path to the second goal in the 18th minute ending with Richard Olsen cleverly finding Pregelj whose first shot was cleared off the line before slotting home at the second chance.
 
 Seven minutes later Gidley hit the shot of the match with his 30 metre drive powering into the top right angle of the net giving Hibberd no chance.
 
 It took two superb saves from Hibberd in the opening seconds of the second-half to deny a blistering shot from Muckles and a minute later diving full length to turn an acute angled shot from Pregelj away for a corner.
 
 River got their first shot on goal for the match in the 50th minute and then suddenly had the Towners on the back foot with dangerous striker Matt Newsome skinning Dunsborough defence in the 60th minute only for goalkeeper Josh Watt to block his acute angled shot.
 
 Two minutes later, however, Watt was unable to hold a wet slippery ball that popped up allowing Josiah Allington an easy header into an empty net.
 
 With Dunsborough losing shape and intensity coach Geoff Holt woke his side up with some well chosen harsh words from the sideline and the Towners were back on track, though still wasting clear cut chances.
 
 Finally they gained a much needed breakthrough in the 76th minute when Copeman accepted a pass from Gidley and left the River defence floundering in his wake to fire in an angled shot.
 
 Then with the last kick of the game Kieran Smith, playing well in defence for the past few weeks, was pushed up front to get a goal in his last match for the season which he obliged with a curling corner.