VAUXHALL Motors rounded off their days in the Blue Square North, on Saturday, by just failing to break the hearts of the large travelling contingent from Southport.
Needing a victory at Rivacre Park to ensure themselves of a place in the play-offs, the Sandgrounders got off to the best possible start by scoring twice inside the first 10 minutes through Neil Prince and Neil Robinson.
But then Motors keeper Lloyd Rigby, signed on his release from Rochdale in March, produced a string of impressive saves to keep the same margin well into the second-half.
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And when Motors hot-shot Paul Taylor curled a free-kick over the wall and beyond the visiting keeper on 70 minutes, after a storming run by Tom Hannigan was brought to an untimely halt, it was not beyond the realms of possibility that Motors were about to spoil the play-off party.
But it was not to be and in the final 10 minutes the visitors re-asserted themselves to run out 2-1 winners.
Motors manager Carl Macauley now starts his rebuilding plans in earnest, in readiness for a return to the Unibond Premier Division next season.
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