SCUNTHORPE UTD 5 BLYTH SPARTANS 1By Chris Sumpter

SCUNTHORPE all but secured a second-place finish by battering Blyth Spartans in a game impacting both ends of the table. Defeat for the visitors leaves their Step 2 status hanging by a thread, although Farsley’s loss at Darlington meant the Spartans remain out of the bottom four. They barely laid a glove on the in-form Iron, who won at a canter thanks to Danny Whitehall’s brace and goals for Maxim Kouogun, Kai Corbett and Alfie Beestin. Scunthorpe boss Jimmy Dean said: “Being at home is going to be massive &#x...