Millers go top- whilst the Gulls win a five goal thriller

Aveley hit the top of the table with victory over Margate, despite playing most of the match with ten men. The Millers were a goal up after just nine minutes, Kenny Aileru with the opener, but on nineteen minutes saw Blaise Riley-Snow see red. They weren’t downhearted, however, and George Sykes quickly doubled their advantage, before Brendon Shabani made it three-nil ten minutes before the break. Cameron Brodie got a goal back for Gate just before the break, but that was that- the Millers back on the summit, the visitors in sixteenth with their third defeat in a row.

Bishop’s Stortford could have gone top with victory over Wingate & Finchley in a story of the Blues, but our travelling draw specialists from North London had other ideas, and held Stortford to a goalless draw. Stortford drop to fifth, and that’s six draws from nine for Wingate.

Horsham have slipped out of the top five and travelled to face Bowers & Pitsea on the back of a poor run which had seen them take one point from twelve. It’s now two points from fifteen after a goalless draw, a result which keeps the Hornets in sixth and leaves their hosts seventeenth.

Canvey Island welcomed Bognor Regis Town for a seaside struggle, and came from behind to win a five goal thriller. Tom Chalaye took only four minutes to score for the visitors, but Evans Kouassi continued his fine scoring run with an equaliser on fifteen minutes- his eighth of the season. Tom Bragg restored the Rocks lead six minutes after the restart, but then Bradley Sach got into the action, equalising just after the hour, giving his side the winner a few minutes later, and then seeing red four minutes before the end. His side hung on, and are up to seventh.

Image: Martin Denyer.

On Friday night Enfield Town climbed the table with a two-nil win over Corinthian-Casuals. Wranel Hercules got his second goal in three games to give his side the lead six minutes before half time, and Andre Coker made sure of the points from the spot just after the hour. The Towners are third, Casuals twenty first.

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