Hotels scored three goals in the first 20 minutes at Wellington Oval to send Hamilton Parish one step closer to the Second Division and ease their own relegation fears.

New coach Robert Calderon saw his team win for the first time after four matches in charge since being fired by Dandy Town.

But the match was not as one-sided as the scoreline suggests and only pitiful finishing prevented Parish from clawing their way back into the match.

Hotels came out firing on all cylinders and took the lead in the fourth minute through a Derek Bell penalty, which was awarded after Phillion Webb had chopped down Clifton Anderson.

Left-winger Anderson extended the lead in the 15th minute when he got on the end of a lob by Derek Scott, which had rebounded off the bar.

A rout looked on the cards when Hotels' other winger Coolridge Bell scored a third just five minutes later.

Bell was put clear by a splendid pass from midfield general Myron Piper and he ended a long run down the right wing by firing a hard, low shot past goalkeeper George Fox.

Parish's Chris Caisey clearly thought Bell was offside and was booked for dissent after complaining too vigorously to referee Roddy Burchall.

Stevie Dickinson should have made it 4-0 just a few minutes later when he robbed a defender and rounded Fox.

But, instead of shooting into an empty goal, he tried to walk the ball into the net and was robbed of the ball inside the six-yard box.

On the half-hour, Piper made a skillful run down the right flank and put over a cross to Dickinson, whose first-time volley sailed inches wide.

Parish's frustrations showed when fiery defender Quinn Outerbridge was booked for kicking Anderson in an off-the-ball incident.

After 62 minutes, half-time substitute Ernest Lathan pulled back a goal in controversial circumstances.

His looping, flicked shot appeared to have been hacked to safety but the linesman ruled the ball had crossed the goal-line and a goal was awarded.

Parish piled on the pressure but failed to convert any of the many clear-cut goal-scoring opportunities they created, with striker Antwon Darrell the biggest culprit.

Hotels rode their luck and put the game beyond any doubt in the 77th minute when Anderson scored his second goal.

Dickinson chased a long ball from his own half and held off two defenders before passing to Anderson, who beat John Nichol and hammered a shot into the roof of the Parish net.

Hamilton Parish: G.Fox; P.Webb (E.Lathan, 45 mins), J.Nichol, Z.Stowe, Q.Outerbridge; K.Simons, C.Caisey, W.Burgess; I.Burgess, A.Darrell, S.Gibbons.

Hotels: R.Darrell; F.Greaves (C.Robinson, 66 mins), D.Bell, P.Smith, D.Scott; C.Sabir, M.Piper, E.Simmons; C.Anderson, S.Dickinson (R.Boyles, 82 mins), C.Bell.

Referee: Roddy Burchall.

Men of the match: Chris Caisey (Hamilton Parish); Clifton Anderson (Hotels).