Advantage Rooks!

Our Premier match of the day saw fourth place Enfield Town host fifth place Lewes. The two started the day separated only by goal difference, but the travelling Rooks made the breakthrough just after the half hour, Michael Klass managing to force the ball home on the third attempt.

The lead didn’t last long. Lewes dithered at the back, Lyle Della-Verde capitalised and crossed, and Adam Cunnington was there to head home the equaliser. The match swung from end to end, but on the hour a twenty yard strike for Razz Coleman De-Graft put the visitors ahead once more, and six minutes later a clever passing move was ended when Klass got his second, and the Rooks third.

With seventeen minutes left the match had slipped away from the Towners, as Joe Taylor made it four-one- his twenty first goal in his twenty sixth match. Lewes are up to third, whilst Town drop to sixth.

Bishop’s Stortford had the longest unbeaten run in the Division, fourteen matches- but they faced a tough test as they travelled to FA Trophy winners Hornchurch. The Urchins had won their last five matches, and they went ahead in this one after half an hour, Ola Ogunwamide with his second Hornchurch goal. It was two-nil just after the hour, Lewwis Spence with his fifth of the season, and that was that- and the end of that unbeaten record for Stortford, who are down to fourth.

Four hundred and thirty two braved the elements at Bridge Avenue.

Brightlingsea Regent saw a two game winning run come to an end over the long weekend, conceding three to Haringey Borough and five to Hornchurch. This didn’t look like the best time to be welcoming a resurgent Kingstonian, the K’s having put four past Lewes on Monday and having won the last three meetings between the sides, and it certainly seemed that way when Ollie Cook gave the K’s a third minute lead- but Regent were level five minutes before half time, Zack Littlejohn grabbing an equaliser. Seven minutes after the break the hosts shocked their visitors, Aaron Blair putting them ahead, and that shock woke the K’s up, as first Daniel Ajakaiye equalised and then, with fifteen minutes left, Elliott Buchanan made it three-two to the visitors.

Buchanan then got the fourth for the K’s, who move up to fifth in the table with that victory- and still have one, two or even three games in hand over the sides above them.

Wingate and Finchley hosted Bowers and Pitsea. The Blues walloped East Thurrock United on Monday whilst Bowers had lost three in a row, and the confidence of the home side showed when new signing Antonis Vasiliou, fresh from scoring the winner for Ashford Town on Monday, scored on his debut just before the break. The first goal came in the forty fifth minute, the second forty five minuets later- and that one also went to the Blues, Tyrique Clarke making quite sure of all three points. Wingate and Finchley climb to fifteenth.

Image: Stuart Fuller.

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