BRETT Pitman opened his account for new club Shaftesbury, scoring twice as the Wessex Premier outfit threatened an upset against National South neighbours Weymouth.

Three divisions separate the teams and it came as a surprise when Pitman rounded keeper Callum Smalley to score.

Weymouth bounced back with easy goals for Charlie Rowan and Marvin Brooks, before adding a third in the second half through Tommy Stagg’s fine shot on the turn.

Current Cherries youth coach Pitman did score a second with a technically superb volley but Weymouth were otherwise untroubled.

While Weymouth were dominant, neither side mustered a shot on target until the 25th minute.

Weymouth switched off from a low ball and Pitman, showing his predatory instincts, ran onto it and coolly rounded keeper Smalley to score.

Behind for only four minutes, Weymouth equalised with their next attack as Rowan touched home Joel Rollinson’s corner from three yards.

Brooks then glanced a header wide moments before putting Weymouth 2-1 up as Harvey Slade cut out Shane Murphy’s poor clearance to tee up the striker for a simple finish inside the box.

Bearwish flicked a header wide before former Poole frontman Brooks went off with an injury, replaced by Brandon Goodship.

The striker, in his third Weymouth spell, nearly produced an assist on 43 minutes only for O’Connell to shoot tamely at Murphy.

Weymouth’s defence was initially the busier of the two sides in the second half, Smalley making an agile low save to tip away Pitman’s dipping free-kick.

However, the Terras added a third on 57 minutes when the Rockies failed to clear inside the area and Stagg turned and blasted home via the underside of the bar.

Shaftesbury then halved the deficit on 66 minutes when the Terras did not clear a Murphy long ball, Pitman drilling a sweet volley into the bottom corner via two minor deflections.

Despite that defensive blip, Weymouth looked the likelier to score and saw Goodship test former Wimborne keeper Murphy with a drifting left-footed shot but Terras were never in danger of conceding a third and closed out the win with ease.