Plymouth Argyle striker Lewis Alessandra netted twice against his former club Morecambe to help the Pilgrims produce a five-star display to move within two points of the Play-Off zone.
Durrell Berry opened the scoring with his first ever goal for the club on five minutes before Alessandra found the target in the 40th minute to double their advantage.
In the second half, Curtis Nelson and Andres Gurrieri also found the target to increase Argyle's lead to four before Alessandra struck in the 90th minute- with this 11th goal of the season- to round off an impressive display for the Pilgrims.
Argyle have now scored nine goals without reply in their last two fixtures- they came away from Play-Off chasing Fleetwood Town 4-0 on Tuesday night- and are now two points off the Play-Off zone. The Pilgrims, in eighth place, have 48 points whilst Southend United-in seventh- have 50 points.
Alessandra's contribution in their win over Morecambe takes the total number of goals scored by him and his strike partner, Reuben Reid, up to 27 in all competitions, which is 20 behind the total scored by Paul Mariner and Billy Rafferty in the 1974-75 season.
Also, if either player manages to hit the magical 20 goal mark for the season then they will be the first Argyle player to do so since Tommy Tynan did so in the 1988-89 campaign.
