Albion suffered a 4-2 defeat at Lincoln City in their penultimate pre-season friendly.
Jovon Makama scored an early brace for the Imps, before Ryley Towler and Jack Moylan found the net either side of a fine Karlan Grant goal, with Devante Cole on target in stoppage time.
The hosts were ahead inside 45 seconds when Reeco Hackett’s corner was headed back across goal by Ben House and cannoned in off the midrift of Makama.
If the Imps’ opener was fortunate, there was no luck involved for their second, with Makama thundering in a right-foot drive from 25 yards after just three minutes.
The Baggies almost had one back on 20 but Isaac Price flashed just wide of the right post after running through on goal from a well worked counter-attack.
City nearly made it three on the half-four mark, but Josh Griffiths kept out Towler’s powerful header from point blank range. The Imps carved out another opportunity five minutes later but Sonny Bradley nodded just wide from Makama’s right-wing cross.
Lincoln made it 3-0 seven minutes after the restart – with Towler heading past Joe Wildsmith from Makama’s lobbed cross.
The Baggies pulled one back on 65 when Grant turned to fire a fierce strike inside the right upright from 25 yards.
But substitute Moylan re-established the hosts’ three-goal lead seven minutes from time with a low drive from Freddie Draper’s throughball.
Ryan Mason’s men continued to toil and second-half substitute Cole cooly slotted a right-foot strike inside the left upright in stoppage time to end the scoring.
Albion conclude their pre-season friendly schedule against La Liga side Rayo Vallecano at The Hawthorns on Saturday, August 2 (ko 1pm).
Albion: Griffiths (Wildsmith 46); Furlong, Phillips, Heggem, Styles (Campbell 46); Molumby (Deeming 68), Mowatt; Fellows (Johnston 68), Price (Maja 76), Grant (Cole 85); Heggebø.
Substitutes: Taylor, Frabotta, Whitwell, Williams.
