Hardly Athletic smashed their record victory as they tore apart 4ply in a performance that was by far and away the best the side has ever produced.
A big win has been coming for weeks for slack finishing has seen Hardly punished on more than one occasion.
There was a sign of the clinical finishing that Hardly would put on show after three minutes when Buxton slid a ball through to Cope, who wrong footed the keeper to open the scoring.
The lead was doubled shortly after when Buxton again found Cope, with a ball down the channel, before Cope wrapped his left foot around the ball and slammed it into the net.
Daylight was put well and truly between the two sides when Buxton made it a hat trick of assists, using the wall to play the ball around a defender and into the path of Middleton, who stayed composed to side foot his shot into the net.
A big scoreline was on the horizon after Buxton opened his Hardly account midway through the half. After helping Middleton to win the ball off a 4ply player just inside his own half Buxton headed for goal and, holding off a defender, put the ball back across the keeper and into the net.
A fifth was added a couple of minutes before half time when a ball played across the goal was poked in by Cope for his hat trick, with the keeper sin binned foul and abusive language after he felt Cope was in the area when he made contact.
The second half started as the first was played out and McEvoy netted his first shortly after the break, before netting a superb second minutes later when he twisted and turned before stroking the ball into the bottom corner of the goal.
The clean sheet was the icing on the cake but that disappeared when a quick one two between two 4ply players resulted in the receiver beating Dale, who had made two or three great stops already, from just outside the box.
McEvoy completed his hat trick with another fine finish before Young rounded off the scoring late on, when his shot hit the post, then the keeper, before nestling in the net.
The result could have been a lot more after Cope twice hit the post and Hardly were denied by several superb saves from the keeper.
Hardly remain bottom, but only by goal difference and are just five points off fourth position.