Richard Gillespie scored twice inside the opening seven minutes before Tom Jordan added his own brace with headers just shy of 30 minutes and then again on the hour mark.

Manager Jerry Gill included new signings Lewis Whitehead and Luke Benbow on the substitutes’ bench with the latter looking pretty handy in the 23 minutes he had to make his mark.

As expected, the Terras’ boss sacrificed winger Matt Groves in favour of another central midfielder – the Terras’ only change from the 3-1 win at home to Lewes on Saturday.

Player/assistant-manager Andy Harris, who used to play for the Spitfires, was the man chosen to fill that role, while ex-Terras Jason Matthews and Tony Taggart lined up for the home side with another former Weymouth man on the bench in the form of Josh Webb.

The visitors got off to the worst start possible when they failed to defend a long clearance from Matthews, allowing Gillespie to turn the Weymouth back four and round Ryan Harrison far too easily before calmly slotting into the empty net.

That start became even more of a nightmare for Weymouth and much more of a dream for Gillespie when the Spitfires’ number nine, hardly the tallest of forwards, scored his second in the space of four minutes with a header.

The prolific ex-Bashley striker was allowed too much space in the penalty area and confidently powered Shaun McAuley’s right-wing cross into the bottom right-hand corner, despite the best efforts of Harrison who could only get a hand to the ball and help it on its way into the net.

Steve Cook could and possibly should have made it 3-0 but shot wide from a good position while Andy Forbes got the better of Scott Bennett but could only volley at Harrison from range.

Harris hit a 30-yard free-kick into the arms of Matthews but Weymouth were struggling to create anything meaningful from open play and suffered once again when Eastleigh attacked.

Harrison was caught at his front post for McAuley’s left-wing corner and Spitfires’ skipper Jordan leapt inside the six-yard box and headed down into the net.

The Terras finally came to life when Eastleigh switched off at the back and Ben Farrell ghosted in behind, but Matthews got just enough of a touch on the on-loan midfielder’s guided effort to put it behind for a corner.

Martin Slocombe had a header cleared off the line from the resulting corner before Farrell blazed over when well placed to net.

Peter Adeniyi slammed in what would have been a superb fourth on the stroke of half-time but it was ruled out for handball while three minutes the other side of the break, McAuley got the better of two players but fired over.

Jake Reid set his sights from 25 yards but shot wide while Harrison got caught again but Bennett stopped Gillespie getting his hat-trick by clearing off the line.

But that only delayed further embarrassment for the Terras’ goalkeeper, when Jordan got the better of him from McAuley’s right-wing corner and scored.

Danny Smith volleyed tamely into Harrison’s hands soon after while Josh Llewellyn missed a glorious chance at the other end to give the travelling Terras’ fans something small to cheer about.

Taggart beat several wild Weymouth challenges before shooting wide from close-range before Harrison made three comfortable saves in the final 10 minutes.

Stephen Reed nearly grabbed a late one for Weymouth from a free-kick but Matthews made a decent stop.