Former Oldham Athletic trainee Kallum Higginbotham recorded a hat-trick as Rochdale's reserve side ran out comfortable winners in their latest totesport.com fixture recording seven without reply against Oldham Athletic.

Dale went into the break sat on a comfortable 2-0 lead but swept the Latics aside in a strong second half with Andy Howarth, Callum Byrne, youth team trialist Oliver Devenney and Scott Hogan all adding to the tally.

'Keeper Kenny Arthur had a very quiet game but there was run outs for first team members Matt Flynn and Marcus Holness in defence.

Dale: Arthur, Holness, Brizzell, Flynn, T. Buckley, Howarth, Byrne, Devenney, Higginbotham, Hogan