CRAIG Beatie fired a double as Albion reserves ran riot to thrash Huddersfield 6-1 at The Hawthorns in Pontin's Holidays League Division One (Central).

Shelton Martis opened the scoring in the tenth minute and Sebastien Lake-Gaskin doubled the Baggies' lead in the 25^th minute with his first-ever second-string goal.

Danny Schofield pulled one back for the Terriers in the 36^th minute and Michal Danek had to be at his best two minutes later, on his first appearance in an Albion shirt, to prevent Joe Skarz equalising.

Joss Labadie made the visitors pay for their miss with a third Albion strike in the 39^th minute and Beattie added another four minutes before the break.

Bartosz Slusarski continued the scoring two minutes into the second half and Beattie grabbed his second of the game in the 83^rd minute.

Craig Shakespeare's men took the lead in the tenth minute after Simon Eastwood gifted them a free-kick eight yards out for handling Aaron Hardy's back-pass.

Beattie's resultant shot was blocked but Martis pounced on the rebound and saw his scuffed strike from the edge of the box fumbled by the hapless Eastwood into his own net.

Mo Saied crossed from the left in the 18^th minute for Slusarski to head down for Beattie, who fired wide of the left-hand post from 18 yards.

Five minutes later Slusarski played a square ball into the box from the right but David Worrall could only blast into the side-netting from an acute angle.

Albion doubled their lead in the 25^th minute when Slusarski flicked-on Martis' ball and Lake-Gaskin found the net with a diving header from eight yards.

Slusarski missed the chance to add another eight minutes later when he should have hit the target with a header from Martis' right-wing centre - but sent his effort wide.

At the other end Martis could only divert Luke Malcher's throughball into the path of Schofield and the Terriers' striker raced on to fire home to Danek's left in the 36th minute.

Two minutes later Malcher whipped in a dangerous ball from the left and Joe Skarz's volley forced a fine point-blank save from Danek to prevent Town levelling the scores.

Less than 60 seconds later Labadie made the visitors pay for their miss by drilling a 25-yard free-kick into the bottom left-hand corner of the net to make it 3-1.

And four minutes before the break Beattie controlled Worrall's pass in the penalty area and finished low to Eastwood's right from ten yards.

The hosts wasted little time in extending their lead after the break with Lake-Gaskin breaking from the halfway line and playing a superb reverse ball for Slusarski to fire home to Eastwood's left in the 47^th minute.

On the hour-mark Daniel Racchi played in Mitchell Bailey down the right wing and he crossed for Lucas Akins, who placed his header wide of the right-hand post.

A minute later Racchi found Akins, whose initial shot was blocked by half-time substitute Matthew Pike.

Akins picked up the rebound and his effort looked like finding the net after deflecting off Pike, until Danek palmed it away for a corner.

The Baggies completed the rout in the 83^rd minute when sub Ricky Nicholls' throughball split the Terriers' defence and allowed Beattie to burst clear down the left before cutting in to fire into the far top corner of the net.

ALBION (4-4-2): Danek; Martis, Pele, Cesar (Pike HT), Saeid; Worrall, Do-Heon, Labadie (Nicholls 65), Lake-Gaskin; Beattie, Slusarski (S Morrison 79). Subs not used: Knight, Samuels.

HUDDERSFIELD (4-4-2): Eastwood; Racchi, Codman, Hardy, Jackson; Malcher, Skarz, Young, Bailey; Schofield, Akins. Subs not used: Brook, Collinson, Franks, Harris, Hunt.

REFEREE: W Barratt.

ATTENDANCE: 235.

ALBION STARMAN: Mo Saied. 

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