ALFIE Carter scored twice as Worcester City advanced to the semi-finals of the Worcestershire FA Senior Cup.

Carter bagged a first-half brace, alongside a Rob Elvins strike, in a one-sided first 45 minutes at St George's Lane but City stuttered through the second period and conceded a Myron Semper effort four minutes from time before substitute Marco Adaggio added a fourth with the final kick of the match.

Richard Dryden's side were head and shoulders above their county rivals, thrashed 8-0 at Fleetwood on Saturday, in the first-half but the Reds kept going and gave a good account of themselves in the second period.

Dryden made four changes from the side which drew 1-1 at Dorchester with Carter, Graham Ward, Rob Davies and Louis Bridges coming in for Matt Dinsmore, Matt Birley, Adaggio and Mark Clyde.

Ward played at right-back, with Kevin Spencer moving into the centre of defence alongside captain Wayne Daniel, while Bridges was paired up front with Elvins.

It was Elvins who got the ball rolling with just three minutes on the clock as he evaded two challenges with ease and sent a shot beyond the despairing dive of youth team goalkeeper Tom Turner, making his debut.

Carter came close to extending City's lead within two minutes, glancing a header inches wide of the far post from Davies' whipped free-kick. But he was successful in the 16th minute as Gary Walker slipped the ball through for Carter to latch onto 20 yards out and he beat Turner.

Further chances fell to livewire Bridges and Davies before Carter got his second in first-half stoppage-time. Spencer's long throw bounced in the area, Redditch failed to clear and Carter lashed the loose ball left-footed into the opposite corner.

Gary Whild's side, featuring six of the team trounced in Lancashire, went close through Semper's shot, saved low by Jake Meredith, and the visitors upped their game after the break.

City, who threw on Jordan Fitzpatrick and Adaggio for Elvins and Pakistan-bound Shabir Khan, struggled to reproduce their first-half showing and began to incur the wrath of the sparse crowd.

Craig Wilding, pushed forward into attack, was denied by Turner and Adaggio somehow managed to put the ball over from point-blank range after good work down the left from the impressive Carter.

Redditch, with subs Dan Carter and Kuol Alor giving them an extra edge, kept plugging away and got their reward when Semper had his shot saved by Meredith but followed up with the rebound.

However, Adaggio ensured City's three-goal advantage was restored three minutes into stoppage-time as he turned in Fitzpatrick's left-wing cross.

City: Meredith 6, Ward 7, Khan (Adag-gio 65, 7) 7, Wilding 7, Daniel (c) 8, Spencer 6, Davies 7, Walker (Birley 80) 7, Elvins (Fitzpatrick 62) 7, Bridges 8, Carter 9*. Subs not used: Dinsmore, Clyde.

Attendance: 303.