Rugby eased to another comfortable home victory against Leighton, rarely needing to step up through the gears against their struggling opponents.

A Seb Lake-Gaskin penalty had given them a deserved lead just ahead of the interval, before a burst of three strikes within fourteen second half minutes wrapped the game up for Valley.

Rugby should have been a goal to the good within the opening two minutes though, but David Kolodynski somehow managed to lift Justin Marsden’s pass over an empty net from point blank range – after good work from Jamie Towers.

Lake-Gaskin then put two further efforts wide of the target, with Ellis Myles also almost making the breakthrough with a dangerous run into the box – before he took one touch too many and was thwarted by a defender.

By the half hour mark, the hosts were virtually camped in the Leighton half, and Kolodynski nearly slid in on Jared Cunniff's low flashed effort.

Matt Griggs tipped Lewis McBride's shot over the bar, before the keeper took out Kolodynski in the box – but the visitors escaped a spot-kick punishment thanks to the linesman’s flag.

They were not so lucky shortly after though, when this time Grant Fryer pulled down Kolodynski, and Lake-Gaskin duly obliged from the twelve yard mark with a low penalty under Griggs’s body.

There was still time for two good saves from Griggs ahead of the half-time whistle, with Greg Kaziboni and McBride the Rugby players denied.

The home side re-emerged for the second period looking determined to kill the game off, and they were soon two ahead when McBride scored against his old club, after Kolodynski had done well to wait to pick out the midfielder’s run into the penalty area.

Kolodynski then got on the score sheet himself with an acrobatic finish to a Lake-Gaskin’s clipped ball across the face of the goal to which Griggs could only get a hand on.

Leighton's only real chance of the game followed when Niall Cooper gathered a well-struck long range effort by Ben Gallant, although it was soon normal service resumed at the other end when Marsden set-up Valley’s fourth for Lake-Gaskin – who applied a controlled finish for his brace goal.

Rugby took their foot of the gas for the remainder of the game, although the assured Kaziboni did go close late-on with a strike that drifted just wide of the post.

Valley Line-up: Cooper; Kaziboni, Myles, Gudger, Fox; Towers (Orange), Marsden, Cunniff (Palmer), McBride (Williams); Kolodynski, Lake-Gaskin. Subs not used: Beastall. Booked: None.

Leighton line-up: Griggs, Downes, Bewley, Fryer, Plowright, Bishop, Marsala, Sylvester, Gallant, Chendlick, Maisiri. Subs: Bather, Quinn, Wells, Chapman.