DENBIGH Town's terrific run of form continued as they defeated Greenfield 3-0 to make progress in the FAW Trophy.

Conditions were hard, dusty and bumpy at the Bernie Williams Memorial Ground and although the tie was scrappy at times, making it difficult for referee to keep order with no assistants, Town were comfortable winners.

Denbigh fielded a strong enough team and bench with Liam Simon returning to his previous club and new signing Morgan Thomas-Sadler making his debut just in front of the back line.

Within the opening 10 minutes, Sean James and Sean Jones had good efforts drift just wide of the home goal and centre half Liam Simon went close with a header from the edge of the box.

It seemed clear a goal was on the way and the opener arrived after a quarter-of-an-hour.

When keeper Chris Wright collected the ball, he heard Denbigh manager Dewi Llion scream to "do it now".

Wright responded by pumping a long ball upfield which bounced high over the exposed defence allowing the nippy Nathan Brown to gain possession 30 yards out.

Brown saw that the keeper was well off his line and he calmly and cleverly lifted the ball high over stranded Connor Massey to make it 1-0.

Greenfield knew they needed to respond and they had decent spells of possession. With the swirling breeze picking up Denbigh tried the long ball tactic again and again it a Brown shot that went close.

The second goal came after half-an-hour - and it was a case of third time lucky!

Billy Holmes sent in a low cross, which Brown just failed to capitalise on and then right back Ben Lockley banged the ball into the danger area again, but it was cleared off the line.

As the ball came out to the edge of the box, captain Sean Jones was there to smash it into the back of the net for goal number two.

Before half time, Greenfield had a really good effort on goal which resulted in a save by Chris Wright low to his right as he pushed the ball beyond the post.

If the referee thought he had his work cut out during the first half then he was to earn his fee in the second half after every tackle was challenged by both sides. Players became frustrated and more and more fouls caused the game to have far too many stoppages to offer any entertainment.

The tie livened up a bit after some substitutions with Jake Walker replacing Nathan Brown and Dan Parry-Jones coming on for Craig Rogers.

Walker had an immediate impact and his low cross offered a clear chance for Danny Clarke, who arrived just too late to steer the ball home.

He got his goal though and that came after Thomas-Sadler found Sam Haddon to the right of the box and he cut the ball back to Walker who made no mistake.