The victory was the Gulls’ seventh consecutive success and came courtesy of a 52nd minute effort from Leon Gordon after a corner hadn`t properly been cleared.
Hampton & Richmond Borough moved into fourth place in the table after coming back from behind to beat third-placed Dulwich Hamlet at the Beveree.
A crowd of 442 saw Dan Sweeney put the visitors in front on the half-hour mark and left Hampton looking second best throughout. But in the second half the Beavers came out with more purpose and equalised just before the hour-mark with a sliding finish from Moussa Diarra.
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With 15 minutes to go, the Beavers won a penalty after Nicke Kabamba was brought down and Dean Sinclair stepped up to strike a neat penalty past Phil Wilson. Hamlet pressed the Hampton defence hard in the last 10 minutes but the Beavers held on for an impressive win.
Metropolitan Police moved level on 23 points with Billericay Town after beating their Essex visitors 1-0 at Imber Court, the decisive goal coming from Nathan Campbell four minutes into the second half.
Merstham moved up three places to 16th in the table after earning a good 2-0 win at Earlsmead against Harrow Borough.
Charlie Penny broke the deadlock to give the Moatsiders a 64th minute lead. And four minutes from time, Fabio Saraiva`s penalty confirmed victory for the visitors.
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