TEN-MAN Malvern Town’s interest in the FA Cup is over for another year after they crashed to a preliminary rou-nd 3-1 defeat against Coalville Town at the Langland Stadium.

The contest was effectively over at the half-hour mark when Malvern found themselves a player and three goals down when centre-half Wes Joyce was sent off for a deliberate handball. The subsequent penalty was tucked away to leave the hosts 3-0 down at the interval.

Malvern’s only bright mom-ent from a miserable afternoon came in the 76th minute when striker Anthony Smith beat the Coalville offside trap to tuck away a low effort from 18 yards out.

Joe Rawle’s side were slow out of the blocks in their first and last venture into the FA Cup for the campaign as the Leicestershire side ran riot in the first period.

After a scrappy start it was the visitors who took the lead on 24 minutes when a shot from Coalville’s Thomas Wel-ford was parried by Malvern keeper Craig Humphries with Lewis Dodd quickest to react to tap in an easy opener.

It didn’t take the visitors long to fire in a second with the incident that changed the ma-tch five minutes later.

The influencial Joyce was dismissed for deliberate handball in the Malvern six-yard box and Michael Swan stepped up to fire his team into a 2-0 lead, sending Humphries the wrong way with his penalty high into the net.

Rocked by the sending-off, Malvern feared a rout on 34 minutes when Swan completed his brace through a bullet of a header following a right-wing cross from Dodd.

But Malvern can take heart from their second-half performance as they re-grouped and re-organised.

Though threatening the Coa-lville goal, Malvern only a had few chances of note the second period and they coped well for 60 minutes with only 10-men.

Stourport Swifts booked their place in the next round of the FA Cup with a 2-0 win at Racing Club Warwick thanks goals from Scott Morris and Matt Smith.

However, managerless Bro-msgrove Rovers were dumped out at West Midlands League side Ellesmere Rangers following their 2-1 defeat.