BEACON arrived at Windsor Park as the form team in the division and the favourites for the title.
A look at the league table showed a perfect record of seven wins from seven games but that was to change after ninety minutes of football, it now re
ads eight wins from eight games.
Keys were on the back foot throughout the first half and their supporters probably feared the worst as they went behind after just two minutes when Danny Taylor failed to hold on to a free-kick which fell at the feet of a grateful Beacon player who had no problem finding the net.
Taylor had plenty of opportunities to repair his reputation and it is to his credit that even after a series of shots and scrambles and a hat-trick of strikes against the post Beacon only added one more to their score before half-time.
The second half began with the introduction of substitute Alex Fletcher who became the fifth son of former Crowle stalwart Ian Fletcher to pull on the Keys jersey.
Another player making his debut was Scott Buttrick who noticed the goalie off his line and chanced his arm with an audacious shot from the halfway line which sailed harmlessly wide. It was the much more familiar figure of Mark Easthope who made Crowle's best chance when he robbed the ball from a defender only to be denied by the goalkeeper's feet.
Keys were playing more football in Beacon's half and looked as though they would limit their opponents to just two goals but in a ten minute burst the visitors demonstrated why their season's record is so impressive.
Two sweetly struck volleys into the same top corner of the goal were followed by a penalty and a routine tap-in to give Beacon a six-nil lead which was neither increased nor reduced in the remaining five minutes.
Keys next match is against DSV at Windsor Park on Sunday morning.
