It was a three for all prior to kick-off as goalkeeper Lauren Dolbear, defender Izzy Franklin and forward-cum-winger Becs Bell were all restored to the hosts’ starting line-up.

Indeed, just 120 seconds were on the clock when Meg Curran’s forward pass was briefly intercepted by visiting captain Ciera Lundy, only for Chloe Winchester to head down her clearance into the path of Humphrey. ‘Soph’ got the better of Megan Bible on her way into the penalty area, rounded netminder Ella Stowell and slotted home into an unguarded net.

Less than ten minutes had elapsed when Humphrey nearly doubled her and her team’s tally, thanks to Katie Young’s superb crossfield ball that set Tierney Scott racing through the inside- right channel. She soon slipped in ‘Soph’ who was eventually denied by the legs of Stowell.

Not that home fans had to wait much longer for a second strike, courtesy of Skipper Dan Rowe spraying a pass out to ‘T’ on the right. Rebels’ top scorer teased Nellie Bullock by turning one way then the other, then cut inside where she was brought down in the box by a combination of Bullock and Vicky Vipond as she tried to squeeze between the two of them. Dusting herself down, Scott sent Stowell the wrong way from the penalty spot for her eighteenth league goal in just twenty-three appearances so far this term.

Beatriz Kretteis headed wide via a corner up the other end but it was Bullock ensuring Scott didn’t bag her brace by bravely blocking her powerfully-struck low drive, at the end of a move that had started in front of the away dugout. Eleanor Keegan’s long throw released Humphrey on the left and the forward’s latest burst into the box saw her pick out Winchester, who used her body well to shield the ball before laying it off to ‘T.’

The Bristolian-based travellers were presented with a route back into the game when Humphrey was adjudged to have fouled Kretteis in a central position, twenty-five yards out. However, Lundy failed to trouble Dolbear between the sticks from the subsequent set-piece.

Two might have become three a tad past the half-hour mark; Keegan cleverly losing her marker but nodding Rowe’s flag-kick narrowly the wrong side of the far upright.

Fourteen goals had now been shared between the two teams in league and cup clashes this season and, in the last real action of the opening period, Rowe’s ball inside to Humphrey almost added another to the ever-increasing total; drifting inches over the crossbar.

At the start of the second-half, Keynsham conceded possession which allowed Scott to break free and sting the palms of Stowell, although a third goal wasn’t long in coming.

Once again, Scott was heavily involved; bringing down Young’s inch-perfect range-finder with her first touch and leaving Bullock trailing in her wake with her second. Then delivering a centre that Humphrey met to put the homesters in – what later turned out to be – an unassailable lead.

Goalscorer and provider linked-up again soon after, to almost devastating effect. The former played a pass for Winchester on the overlap to rapidly locate Bell in the box; only for Stowell to keep the score unchanged with a brilliant block.

Scott’s tenacity and awareness brought her an opportunity to send ‘Winch’ galloping along the right once more, moments later. A high, hanging cross greeted by Katie Cooper’s right foot drew another stunning stop out of the busy Stowell, as the substitute threatened to make an immediate impact.

The Stowell versus Worthing battle continued unabated, after Winchester swivelled on Holly Talbut-Smith’s pass and exchanged a neat one-two with replacement Lauren Amerena. Though Town’s number one parried her shot to prevent any further addition to the scoreline.

Despite being under the cosh for the majority of the afternoon, the Somerset side did manage to claim a consolation. Lundy challenged for a high ball with Young, then did equally well to get away from both her and fellow defender Franklin, prior to drilling past Dolbear from a mere smidging inside the eighteen yard area.

Not that that was quite that, thanks to Cooper’s long ball over the top of the guests’ backline providing one last opening for Winchester to put the result beyond all reasonable doubt. Unfortunately, Chloe lifted her effort over custodian Stowell and the frame of the goal but, by then, the damage had already been done.