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Saturday's Blue Square South Wrap

Eastbourne's convincing 3-0 victory over Lewes sees them top the Blue Square South League Standings, while Weston.S-Mare suffered a humiliating 4-0 defeat at home to Bishop's Stortford.

Bath City 0-1 Basingstoke Town

Basingstoke caused an upset at Twerton Park with a 1-0 win over Bath City.

The Dragons sealed victory in the 48th minute, thanks to the scoring of striker Michael Charles. The defeat for Bath City, however, means that the Romans move two positions down the Blue Square South standings from 3 to 5.

Cambridge City 0-0 Braintree Town

Cambridge and Braintree played to a goalless draw at The City Ground. Lilywhites boss Gary Roberts was hopeful his new signing of striker Temitope Arojogun would bolster City's attacking force, but both teams were unable to score.

The result leaves Cambridge at the number 13th spot and Braintree who desperately needed to secure three points after their defeat last week, sees them travelling down the log to the 19th spot.

Dorchester 2-3 Bromley

Bromley's amazing run of form continues with 3-2 away win against Dorchester.

In this high scoring game, the home side started confidently scoring two goals in the first half courtesy of Jones Awuah in the 13th minute and Jamie Gleeson, scoring shortly after that in the 26th minute.

However, Bromley came back with a vengance in the second half and staged an amazing comeback to score three goals thanks to Nic McDonnel on target on 66 minutes. Forward Gareth Williams levelled the scoreline on 75 minutes and two minutes later, Garath McCleary put the final nail in Dorchester's coffin.

Eastbourne Borough 3-0 Sutton Utd

Eastbourne Borough continued their explosive form by scoring another 3 goals in the Blue Square South League to win Sutton United.

Eastbourne were comfortably in control of the game, scoring two goals in the first half thanks to Pat Harding on 30 minutes and Paul Armstrong, netting the second a minute later.

Sutton faced no chance of a comeback after the break when midfielder Matt Smart scored on 71 minutes, to give Eastbourne the three well deserved points and send them top of the Blue Square South League standings.

Eastleigh 3-0 Lewes

Eastleigh overcame huge odds to beat former log-leader Lewes, 3-0 at the Silverlake Stadium.

The Spitfires made their intentions known with early strikes from Paul Sales on 12 minutes and Andy Forbes on 14 minutes.

Matt Hann scored on 60 minutes in the second half to hand Lewes their loss of the season and sends them climbing the log to the number tenth spot.

Fisher Athletic 0-1 Maidenhead Utd

Fisher Athletic could not repeat last week's win and fell victim to Maidenhead Utd. losing 1-0.

Maidenhead were unfortunate in their last league match, but proved luck, or maybe brilliance was on their side, when diminutive striker Lee Newman scored the only goal on the third minute.

Recording only their second victory of the season thus far, Maidenhead now moves to up the table to spot number 17. Fisher Athletic, however, drops down but still remain at the top half of the standings.

Hampton & Richmond 4-1 St Albans

Supporters at Beveree Stadium were treated to a goalfest when their team Hampton & Richmond beat St. Albans 4-1.

Elliott Godfrey set the ball rolling with the opening goal in the sixth minute and an own goal doubled their advantage five minutes before the break, although Lee Clarke gave City hope when he pulled one back just before half-time.

However, Ryan Lake made it 3-1 and Sean McAuley added a fourth with three minutes to go.

Hayes & Yeading 1-1 Thurrock

Hayes and Yeading and Thurrock shared the spoils in their Blue Square South league encounter, with a 1-1 draw.

The Missionaries were given an early scare when Thurrock scored first courtesty of Fola Orilonishe on 75 minutes. The Church Road faithful breathed a sigh of relief, when a stunning 82nd minute over-head volley from Stafforde Palmer ensure both teams went away with a single point.

Both teams now remain at their same spot with Hayes at 14 and Thurrock at 16 on the league standings.

Newport County 2-2 Bognor Regis Town

Newport County and Bognor Regis Town played to a 2-2 draw at the Newport Stadium. The visitors scored first thanks to Haddon on 45 minutes.

The Rocks recovered in the second half when Craig Hughes scored on 52 minutes. The Exiles must have thought the three points were theirs, when Mark Knee scored on 77 minutes.

However midfielder Lee Fowler had something else in mind and scored on 87 minutes to ensure both teams left with a point. Both teams remain at their current spot, with Newport at fourth and Bognor on 20th respectively.

Welling 1-1 Havant and Waterlooville

15th placed Welling gave 8th placed Havant and W a good contest at Park View Road, as both teams played to a 1-1 draw.

Andy Gurney gave the Wings supporters a scare in the first half, when he scored on 41 minutes. However, defender Tony Sinclair scored six minutes later and Welling hung on for that one elusive point.

Weston-S-Mare 0-4 Bishop's Stortford

Visitors Bishop's Stortford brilliant form continues, when they thumped Weston-Super-Mare, moving them to third on the league standings.

The home-side had a lacklustre performance and Bishop's punished them convincingly. Loui Fazakerley opened Bishops account on 13 minutes.

Then it took a brilliant hat-trick from Greg Pearson to seal Weston's fate. The 20-year-old scored on 34 minutes.

In the second half, the former West Ham trainee came out guns blazing, scoring his second on 70 minutes and then completed his hatrick on the 80th minute.