PHP : eregi_replace problem

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I have a html page like this

<script language="vbscript">
some script
</script>

Some text

<script language="vbscript">
some more script
</script>

Some more text

I want to remove the scripts so i used the following code:

$open = fopen("file.html", "r");
$read = fread($open,  20000);
fclose($open);

$read = eregi_replace("<script>(.*)</script>", "" , $read);

what it outputs is just Some more text. The scripts are gone but along with them the Some text. I dont want some text to be erased.

Please Help,
Thanks in advance,
Rabin