A FULL-STRENGTH Yeovil Town defeated Salisbury 3-2 in an entertaining pre-season friendly at the Ray Mac.

Ryan Hedges put the Sky Bet League Two outfit ahead with a cool finish before Whites responded seven minutes prior to half time through Sutton United loanee Tommy Wright .

But a second from Hedges and a thunderous strike from Tom Eaves midway through the second half stretched the Glovers' lead.

Whites grabbed one back in stoppage time through Josh Ezewele's own goal.

On a hot summers evening, Steve Claridge fielded four trialists in Newport County's Welsh pair Liam Angel and Dafydd Jones, Amesbury Town's Danny Finnigan and Adam Brice.

And centre-half Angel was in the thick of things early on as his back pass went past the on-rushing Charlie Searle but he managed to sprint back and divert the danger.

However, there was nothing Angel nor his defensive partner Elliot Wheeler could do to stop the visitors, in their green and yellow kit, from breaking the deadlock on 17 minutes.

Lewis Benson's pass was intercepted by Eaves who, from his own half, stormed up the pitch before crossing for Hedges who provided the deftly touch.

Provider Eaves and Hedges both went close with similar efforts as Yeovil searched for a second.

As the visitors continued to play attacking football, Whites caught them on the counter attack as Finnigan picked up a loose ball and played in Wright whose first-time shot took a hefty deflection before going in off the underside of the crossbar.

But that equaliser was marred by the reoccurring shoulder injury of Danny Young, who was replaced by Reece Rusher.

Four minutes after the restart, Darren Way's outfit restored their lead when Hedges tucked home an inviting cross at the far post.

The visitors' pressure continued and dangerman Eaves got a third after unleashing a thunderous strike into the roof of the net - his just reward for a star performance in front of 691 fans.

Shortly after Way, whose side were well worth their two-goal cushion, changed his entire team to give a mixture of youngsters and trialists a run-out and one of those, Jonny Maddison, tested Searle with a low drilled shot.

That looked like the last of the action until, at the other end, Searle's opposite number couldn't keep out teammate Ezewelle's backwards header, from Benson's delivery, from crashing in.