Whitby Town suffered a second consecutive away defeat tonight, falling 3-1 to Avro at the Vestacre Stadium after leaving themselves with too much to do following a difficult first half.
Making the journey to Greater Manchester on the back of Saturday’s loss at Emley, Graeme Lee’s side endured a nightmare start under the lights. Avro broke the deadlock in just the fifth minute when Ethan Kershaw found the back of the net.
The Seasiders almost conjured an immediate response a minute later, as James Dillon nodded the ball into the path of Callum Hickman, whose low effort deflected behind, before Marley Grant prodded the resulting corner over the crossbar. Hickman went close again on 18 minutes, firing a first-time strike over from the edge of the area, while goalkeeper Henry Popple was forced into an acrobatic save at the other end to keep the deficit at one.
However, the hosts doubled their advantage in the 23rd minute through Harry Sault. Whitby’s mountain grew even steeper just before the interval when Harry Salt netted Avro's third goal in the 41st minute via a wicked deflection. Ben Beals saw a long-range effort deflect just wide in first-half stoppage time, sending the visitors into the break trailing 3-0.
Whitby emerged for the second period with renewed purpose and quickly began to threaten. Hickman flicked a Dan James free-kick into the side netting early on, before Stuart Rose gave the travelling supporters hope in the 56th minute, curling a superb strike from range beyond Avro goalkeeper Jon Robinson to pull a goal back.
The Seasiders pushed hard to further reduce the arrears. In the 64th minute, Hickman came agonisingly close to making it 3-2 when his sneaky lob beat Robinson only to clip the crossbar. Four minutes later, Hickman’s lofted pass picked out the run of Marley Grant, who struck straight into the hands of the home keeper.
As time ticked away, manager Graeme Lee turned to his bench, introducing Lucas Reed for Dan James on 73 minutes, followed by a double switch in the 84th minute as Mo Gashi and Leon Parker replaced Ben Beals and Stan Hewitt. At the other end, Henry Popple produced a smart stop in the 80th minute to tip Taylor Dyson's low drive around the post.
Despite late bookings for Lucas Barnes and goal scorer Stuart Rose, plus an added-time substitution seeing Alex White replace Mikey Hodgson, Whitby could not find a way back into the contest as Avro held firm to claim all three points at full time.
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