Great Scott: Shrimps` goalie.

Tenth-placed Morecambe faced third-placed Shrewsbury on Saturday at the Greenhous Meadow with Manager Jim Bentley back on the bench after illness. In midfield, Stewart Drummond – currently player-coach for the Shrimps and in his fortieth year – faced his former employers right from the start due to injuries, a situation which was not helped when star performer Jamie Devitt had to be withdrawn after the warm-up. The Lancashire club had the first chance, Paul Mullin narrowly missing the Shrews` post with a shot after six minutes. The same player was denied by goalkeeper Jason Luetwiler when one-on-one with him just four minutes before half time only for Kevin Ellison to have an effort saved immediately before the break. The nearest to a goal during the first half, however, happened when Bobby Grant beat Shrimps` goalkeeper Scott Davis with a shot after forty-one minutes only to see his effort bounce back off the post.

It was virtually one-way traffic in the second half with Micky Mellon`s men dominating play and having nearly all the chances. Scott Davis excelled himself by denying James Collins with outstanding saves just after the restart and again with just over an hour played. Even when the ball actually got past the Morecambe custodian, Captain Mark Hughes and himself somehow managed to keep it out of the net by scrambling it off the line and then the post came to Davis` rescue for the second occasion in the game to frustrate Collins for a third time after 71 minutes. Andy Mangan finally managed to get the ball into the Morecambe net following yet another miraculous save by Davis from Collins: sadly for the goalkeeper, his block this time fell into the former Fleetwood`s player`s path with less than five minutes scheduled to play. It was a deserved win for the Shropshire club which consolidated their position in the automatic promotion positions in League Two: they moved-up to second position. Morecambe remain in tenth place, ten points adrift of their opponents.