BILLINGE fell to a 4-1 defeat at high-flying Parklands on Saturday in a real game of two halves.

The young Storks side were superb in the first half, dominating proceedings and went into the break 1-0 ahead.

On a heavy pitch Billinge came out of the blocks the quickest and began to stretch the Parklands side, producing a corner after three minutes that was well cleared.

On ten minutes the home side showed their quality that resulted in Kev Dunning shooting just wide.

Eight minutes later Kian Green met Ben Hamlett's free-kick to bring a great save out of Parklands' keeper David Nevitt and then the same man denied Hamlett with another fine stop.

However, on 27 minutes Billinge were ahead when Dylan Woodroffe headed Arun Aujla's long throw-in onto Green who beat his man, took the ball to the goal line before pulling it back for the onrushing Tom Ahearn who slotted home from close range.

It was almost two a minute later when great work from Woodroffe set up Green who fired just wide.

Parklands almost equalised from a Jay White free-kick but Will White was equal to it and pushed the ball over the bar.

The experienced home side were obviously shaken to the core, came out for the second-half all guns firing and were level within three minutes.

The Billinge defence failed to deal with a corner as Adam Donohue headed home at the near post and despite protestations from the players that The Storks keeper had been fouled the referee deemed the goal legitimate.

Playing down the hill Parklands had The Storks on the back-foot and it was no surprise that they went ahead on 62 minutes when Dunning scored direct from a free-kick 25 yards out.

On 75 minutes the excellent Jay White - who really should and could be playing much higher up the pyramid - rounded Will White to make it 3-1 before Jeff Gleave made it safe in the closing stages giving his side the three points.

After the game a disappointed Billinge manager Dave Morris said: "I thought we were excellent in the first half and thoroughly deserved the lead but they are a very good side, experienced, on a long unbeaten run and showed their quality.

"We'll take the positives out of the game, it is another learning curve for the players and we'll train hard during the week and really look forward to this Saturday's game."

That match is at Barrows Farm when Wythenshawe Amateurs Reserves are the opponents in a 2pm kick-off.