Wealdstone top, Hastings through

The league match first: Wealdstone had beaten K's in their last five meetings but their chances of making it six looked slim when Andre McCollin fired the leaders ahead in the third minute, becoming the first player to reach the five-goal mark in the division, and Gary MacDonald made the most of slack marking at a corner to head a second after 18 minutes.

Stones, though, hit back two minutes later when Richard Jolly scrambled the ball home for his fifth league goal, and Alex Dyer equalised with a spectacular free-kick in the 33rd minute.

K's keeper Rob Tolfrey might have known he was in for a sticky night when he was named in the programme and on the team sheet as 'Toffee', and he was beaten again in the 45th minute as Peter Dean completed the turnaround with a fierce drive.

Tom Pett met a Lee Chappell cross with a clever back-header to make it 4-2 in the 57th minute and K's saw little of the ball after that, although when they did manage to attack home keeper Rikki Banks had to pull off two fine saves from McCollin to prevent the visitors getting back into the game.

Substitute Nathan Webb wrapped it up with a shot from a tight angle in the 86th minute and Banks saved a penalty by Dean Lodge to deny K's some consolation in added time.

Stones leapt from seventh in the table to top spot, one point clear. Perhaps more remarkable, considering that it was the only game in the division, was that K's crashed from first to sixth!

Hastings, meanwhile, gave themselves a great chance of reaching the first round of the FA Cup for the first time since 2002. Indeed, before this season they had not won a match in the competition since 2006.

Bradley Goldberg put them ahead, against the run of play, just after the half-hour. John Frendo equalised for Southern League Hitchin from the penalty spot in the 58th minute but player-manager Sean Ray restored the Ryman club's lead on 73 minutes and they held out.

Their reward is a home tie against Blackfield & Langley, a club based near Southampton who are no more than halfway in the Step 5 Wessex League.

A word of warning, though: they are managed by Ashley Vickers, well remembered in the London area as a tough-tackling midfielder with the likes of Heybridge, St Albans and Dagenham. He has also had a recent spell in charge of Conference South club Dorchester, though his reign there is most famous for the controversial suspension he received for rugby-tackling a mankini-clad pitch invader!