March Town set their sights on extended stay in FA Vase ahead of Mildenhall clash

March Town have their sights on a prolonged run in this season's FA Vase on the back of their best league start for a number of years.

The Hares find themselves level on points at the top with pre-season favourites Newport Pagnell in the United Counties League Premier Division South after Saturday's 3-0 victory over Rugby Borough.

Now they prepare to take on Thurlow Nunn Premier Division high-flyers Mildenhall at the GER on Saturday as they look to put their poor cup form this season behind them.

Joint manager Seb Hayes said: "We know what Mildenhall are about. They're a good side and we played them pre-season.

"We've got to make sure that we deliver a performance as we want a good run in the FA Vase.

"It's a national competition at Step 5 and we really believe if we can click then we can go deep into the cup.

"Mildenhall will be a tough game, but we'll sit down work out a game plan, train hard this week and look to win the game on Saturday."

Hayes would love to see a crowd of more than 300 for the game.

"We're playing attractive football, scoring goals and keeping clean sheets," he said.

"We had 281 here at the weekend so another 50 or 100 fans on top of that would really spur the lads on, I know that."

The Hares began the weekend sitting third in the United Counties League Premier Division South and Craig Gillies’ fourth goal of the season in the 15th minute and Ben Seymour-Shove with his first of the campaign gave them a 2-0 half-time advantage against Borough.

Seymour-Shove netted a second midway through the second period to make the final score 3-0.

"I thought we were solid, which we needed to be after last weekend," said Hayes.

"We said to the lads before the game that it was important to show that last week was a blip.

Although we didn't always play the football we would have liked, when we did we looked sharp, moved it about well and scored some good goals.

"It was pleasing to score from two set-pieces and I was delighted to see Ben score two goals."

The joint Hares boss again praised the contribution of captain Gillies playing in a makeshift centre-half role.

"He is so versatile and he's done a job for the team today," admitted Hayes.

"He delivered a real captain's performance and I think he led the boy's really well.

"Everyone stoop up and were counted today because we were really disappointed with our performance at Aylestone Park where we let ourselves down."