Ronnie Waldock scored the division's and the Iron's first hat-trick of the campaign as the side recovered to going 1-0 down early on in the game.
Twenty minutes in, though, and United were beginning to get a foot-hold of the encounter and would soon blow their Merseyside counterparts out of the water with clinical football.
TRANMERE ROVERS | 1-4 | SCUNTHORPE UNITED |
Gaskell 14 | Waldock 36, 45, 80 | |
Fletcher 46 |
MATCH INFORMATION...
TRANMERE XI: | Harris, Bell, Moore, Heydon, Millington, Charlton, McDevitt, Williams, Gaskell, Cressan, Egglington. |
SCUNTHORPE XI: | Hardwick, Horstead, Brownsword, Marshall, Heward, Bushby, Marriott, Waldock, Fletcher, Haigh, Jones |
REFEREE: | Mr R P Hartley (Burnley) |
ATTENDANCE: | 12,836 |
MATCH REPORT...
Scan reproduced thanks to permission from the Scunthorpe Telegraph.