BASHLEY 3 Dorchester 0 WHILE Dorchester fans were getting into a sweat trying to convince themselves that friendly results didn't matter, Magpies boss Mark Morris reckoned the heatwave roasted his plan to treat his side's final warm-up game as a full scale rehearsal for next week's Dr Martens Premier Division opener at home to Hinckley United.

"I wanted to use it as a pre-cursor to our opening game and not make too many changes during the match," said Morris. "But it was just too hot to do that and it seemed sense to give everyone a bit of the action.

As a result only goalkeeper Mark Ormerod stayed on the pitch for the whole 90 minutes - and he seemed to suffer from a touch of the sun with two uncharacteristic blunders.

The first came early on when he went down to smother an over-hit through ball and what should have been a routine pick-up ended with the ball running loose for Bashley midfielder Craig Davis to tap into an empty net.

"It was a ridiculous goal, I think Mark just fell over," said Morris.

"I thought we passed the ball well and our shape was good in the first half when we had one or two chances to equalise. But when you make a lot of changes like we did in the second half it always gets a bit ragged.

"However in those temperatures it was never going to be the sort of game where you go full tilt and I was just pleased everyone came through it without any injuries and I should have a full squad to pick from next week."

Former Magpies goalkeeper David Elm denied the Magpies an equaliser when he stuck out a boot to deflect Justin Keeler's close range effort after Matt Hann's cross found him at the far post.

Elm stretched up to tip Jamie Brown's 18-yard drive over his crossbar early in the second half before the impressive Richard Gillespie stretched to turn in Mark Jones driven cross from the left after 53

minutes.

Ex-Bash man Stuart Cooper looked the most likely source of trouble for his former side but Steve Legg and Rob Murray both failed to make the best of half chances he engineered.

Then Ormerod was caught in no-man's-land when Dave Wakefield chipped a pass over their defence in the 85th minute and the alert Gillespie just beat a hesitant keeper to the ball to flick it neatly over his head and into the net from the edge of the area.

Magpies new signing Matt Tubbs looked lively in the first half without making the impact he managed in his two previous appearances.

"That didn't worry me," said Morris who has the week's training sessions to decide his best combination of strikers. "I didn't expect full commitment, that will come next week."

Dorchester: Ormerod, Jermyn, Walker, Rawlinson, Browne, Harris, Hann, Holmes, Shepherd, Tubbs, Keeler. Subs used: Groves, Brown, Cooper, White, Radcliffe, Legg.