Town's second successive four goal defeat sent them out of the FA Trophy - and reaching for the record books.
"I don't think there's ever been a time when Market Drayton Town have conceded four goals in consecutive matches and also failed to score," said coach Mick Murphy afterwards.
He was right - but by all the normal laws of football, that unhappy statistic should not be in the record book today.
Town were never four goals shy of the opposition in this replay; in fact they should have been leading at the interval, not trailing by a goal.
As Murphy said: "At the end, it has to be said that we did not defend particularly well tonight but, at the same time, we've also won 16 corners - that's got to say something for the number of attacks we've put in.
"I'm very disappointed at the result because for long periods we had them rocking."
Drayton were at their best in the 35 minutes after Phil Denney had fired Bamber Bridge into a deserved lead with a fine shot from the left that whistled past keeper Andy Pryce to find the far corner of the net.
Pryce's counterpart, Mike Hale, was kept busy clawing crosses out of the air and Tom Rogers, Duncan Horler, Paul McMullen and Nicky Porter all had goalbound shots blocked as Town hit a purple patch that could easily have earned an interval lead.
Apart from a fine header by Martyn Davies brilliantly saved at the foot of a post, Town couldn't achieve quite the same level of threat after the break but were still battering away well when Bamber Bridge grabbed a second through Lennie Reid two minutes after the hour mark.
It was a cruel cut - but worse was to come as, with Drayton now forced into all-or-nothing cup tie mode and pushing men forward, Ashley Dunn (83 minutes) and Carl Lomax (87 minutes) punished them with two swift, deceptively simple looking strikes.
It gave Bamber Bridge a far bigger margin than they deserved, as even their most diehard supporters admitted.
On the subject of which, thanks must go from the small band of Town supporters for the friendly and generous greeting they received at the Brig.
Home fans and officials alike were obviously desperately keen to disassociate themselves from the Greenfields ground invasion carried out in their name by a booze laden gang of about two dozen when the sides drew one apiece in the first encounter.
An article in the official club programme added emphasis to their apologies roundly condemning invaders, who spent the match penned into a Greenfields stand by police, drinking the cans and bottles they refused to surrender.
It must have been rather galling however for those who spotted a group of drinkers waving cans and bottles watching this game too - from over the wall of a back garden overlooking the ground!!