Carr drives Dulwich to the top

The visitors always had a slight edge with their neat passing game but were frustrated by several excellent Alan Mansfield saves and fell behind to a goal by Marcus Elliott two minutes before the interval.

A floodlight failure after an hour – the third such event in Sussex in recent weeks – delayed proceedings for 15 minutes and Dulwich raised their game after the restart. Carr, who scored four times in a League Cup tie on Tuesday, rounded keeper Alan Mansfield to equalise on 74 minutes and repeated the trick in the 87th minute to win it.

Crawley Down moved up to fourth with a 1-0 win at Corinthian-Casuals which owed much to the outstanding form of Tony Di Bernardo between the posts. He was fully rewarded by Fraser Logan’s free-kick a minute before the interval.

The Anvils moved above Sittingbourne, who were held to a 2-2 home draw by Merstham but stay in the top five. Ryan Golding’s tenth league goal of the season came after 12 minutes and gave the Brickies a half-time lead. Then came a burst of three goals in as many minutes early in the second half. Lee Newman equalised, Golding made it 2-1 and Newman again responded.

Tooting’s improved form continued with a 3-2 home win over Whitstable. It looked easy as Carl Wilson-Denis scored in the third minute and further goals by Trevor Rowe and Taurean Roberts made it 3-0 with little more than half an hour gone.

Damian Abel pulled one back with a 58th-minute penalty for a foul on Sean Raggett and when Stuart Vahid struck a minute later it condemned Tooting to a nervous half-hour. But they held out and moved up to ninth.

A point behind them in tenth place are Worthing, a remarkably lofty placing for a side that have lost six of their seven home games. They away form has been a different story and they collected their sixth victory with four unanswered goals at Chipstead.

Chris O’Flaherty got three of them, the only hat-trick in the league after the previous Saturday’s bonanza of ten such feats. His free-kick opened the scoring on 18 minutes and he quickly added another. Luke Gedling made it 3-0 early in the second half and O’Flaherty completed the scoring with 35 minutes still remaining.