Darlington went out of the Durham Challenge Cup by 3-0 at Stockton Town tonight.

Quakers were in with a chance, until Stockton scored twice in the space of ten minutes in the second half. Leon Scott and Jordan Watson both played for nearly an hour, while the impressive Tom Davie played the full ninety minutes.

Davie made a good run up the left after 3 minutes, and put in a teasing cross to the far post which was touched away by Stockton keeper Michael Arthur.

The first shot at goal in the game on 13 minutes was a left foot shot by Kallum Hannah that Darlington keeper Mark Bell saved to his right.

Stockton had another chance on 27 minutes when a long clearance by Arthur went through to winger Chris Stockton, who blazed over.

The ENL side took the lead on 28 minutes when Hannah burst through and sidefooted past Bell from ten yards, but Quakers claimed that there was a foul on defender Matthew Ridley in the build up.

Davie was the most likely Quakers player to score, and in the space of two minutes he had a left foot shot from an acute angle saved by Arthur, and with his next chance he fired diagonally across the face of goal.

But Stockton nearly got a second with a low left foot shot by Hannah that Bell saved well low down to his left.

Davie again figured in the second minute after the interval with a left footed free kick from 25 yards that was deflected just over the top.

Town went 2-0 up on 49 minutes from well worked corner which finished with a header by Stockton being saved one-handed by Bell and Hannah headed in, and ten minutes later it was all over when Bell could only parry a low shot by Kevin Hayes, and Stockton sidefooted in the loose ball.

Davie remained Quakers’ main threat, and he put a right foot shot across the face of goal, but Stockton nearly got a fourth through Joe Scaife-Wheatley at the other end.

Darlington:

Bell, Kilpatrick, Watson (sub Moncur 55), Ripley, Verity, Harker, Smith, Scott (sub Hume 55), Maughan, Stephenson (sub Milburn 60) Davie

Subs: Davison, Cocks