FOUR first-half quality goals gave Pershore Town a victorious start in their Midland League Division One opener with Heather St Johns, winning 4-2.

After just seven minutes Dean Waldron fed Jamie Clarke on the left and his perfect cross was hammered home by Michael Wright to open the scoring.

Wright had two further efforts well blocked by visiting keeper Ben Allsop.

On 19 minutes Town went further ahead when Clarke, fresh from finishing tournament joint top-scorer in the World Deaf Olympics in Turkey, latched onto a through-ball from Daniel Priest and slipped it past the keeper.

After giant Heather defender Rudy Masambo headed narrowly wide from a corner the visitors suddenly found themselves level on the half-hour as defensive errors allowed Andre Gonzales and Jack Cook to score in the space of four minutes.

Town continued to have the better of the exchanges though and four minutes before half-time newcomer Priest turned quickly onto a cross just outside the box and crashed the ball home.

It was 4-2 three minutes later when from Richard Thomas-Robinson's cross Wright cleverly set up Priest for his second goal.

The second period was more even with fewer chances but as Town increased the tempo in the final stages Allsop pushed a fine Jordan Hayward drive past the far post and then held onto a low Clarke volley.

Just before the finish impressive skipper Steve Webb broke from defence and fed Clarke but although 16-year-old substitute Mitch Butterworth confidently drove the resulting cross home the effort was ruled out for offside.

Town host Studley on Tuesday (7.45pm), travel to Bolehall Swifts on Saturday (3pm) and then next Tuesday host Tenbury United in the first round of the Smedley Crooke Memorial Cup (7.45pm).