SIX is proving to be a popular number for Bala Town.

A week after beating Airbus 6-0 in the Cymru Premier League, the Lakesiders booked their spot in the next round of the Welsh Cup after a 6-1 success at Hawarden Rangers.

Colin Caton's visitors applied attacking pressure from the kick-off and it took only seven minutes for the deadlock to be broken.

A corner taken on the right arrived out towards Kieran Smith, who swung the ball in to an unmarked Lassana Mendes and he delivered a teasing ball into the path of James Davies, who headed home to open the scoring.

Rangers' keeper Jonathan Simpson made four acrobatic saves in the space of two minutes as he kept out Adam Roscrow’s effort from three yards and then Roscrow’s follow-up to tip the powerful strike over the crossbar.

Simpson then kept out George Newell’s double chance a minute later.

After Newell had an effort chalked off for offside, Town doubled their lead via Roscrow.

Nathan Peate added a third in the 24th minute when he got on the end of a Mendes free kick and powered in a bullet header into the roof of the net.

Before the break, Town scored their fourth of the afternoon.

Good work by Antony Kay and Mendes set up Roscrow for his second.

Simpson was called into action very early in the second half when Roscrow’s chance was superbly forced out for a corner by the goalkeeper.

The striker netted his hat-trick when Newell’s excellent cross met the forward who turned the ball in to score Bala’s fifth of the day.

Substitute Soulayman El Amri danced down the wing and curled an exceptional ball into Newell, which he instinctively placed into the back of the net to take the score up to six.

In the final five minutes, Hawarden were rewarded and got on the scoresheet themselves.

Miscommunication at the back between Ramsay and White allowed Thomas Bridges to pounce on the stray ball and dispatch a consolation goal for the hosts in the closing stages.