Scarborough's play-off dreams turned into another nightmare.

After a shambolic 3-1 home defeat against Torquay on Saturday they suffered a 4-1 thumping in the return leg at Plainmoor last night and had two men sent off.

Injury-hit Boro were rocked when 25-year-old St Vincent-born striker Rodney Jack scored twice in the first seven minutes.

Steve Brodie's woeful back header sold Paul Atkin short and the pint-sized forward raced away to round 'keeper Tony Elliott to score after only six minutes.

Within 60 seconds Jack had exposed Atkin's lack of pace again to shoot home from a narrow angle.

Before the game Scarborough's Paul Heckingbottom, who had been recalled to the side, broke down in the warm-up and referee Bob Harris and Torquay coach Kevin Hodges agreed that McElhatton could take his place in the side.

Scarborough manager Mick Wadsworth said: "We were poor again and only Jason Rockett and Ben Worrall came out with any credit.

"I'd like to apologise to our fans for this performance and the way we went off the boil in our last nine games, because we should have got automatic promotion.

"I've got to sit down over the next few days to see who we will be keeping and who will be leaving, although some are still on the contract."

There were six cautions in the first 20 minutes last night.

After the early double setback Rockett briefly gave Scarborough some hope when he rose to meet a Troy Bennett free kick to head powerfully home.

But when Gareth Williams clattered into Jack after 28 minutes, he received his second caution and was ordered off.

Steve McCall scored with a 25-yard scorcher before half time and after the break produced an inch-perfect pass for the overlapping Paul Gibbs to score the fourth.

When Liam Robinson, who had replaced the ineffective Chris Tate, launched himself at Gibbs, he was sent off after only 16 minutes on the field to bring Boro's season to a sad conclusion.

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