A Seasiders comeback earns a point, whilst Jockeys and Jammers triumph

Felixstowe and Walton United travelled to Wroxham looking for a sixth consecutive win- and to narrow the gap between themselves and leaders Bury Town- but in the end were lucky to take a point. The Yachtsmen, under new/returned boss Jordan Southgate once more, charged into an early lead, Craig Parker putting them ahead on thirteen minutes from the edge of the box, and quickly doubled it, Ryan Hawkins seventh goal in eleven appearances making it two on twenty five minutes, this one coming after a defensive error. That, it seemed, was that, and then with four minutes to go a Josh Mayhew goal- his eighth of the season- gave the Seasiders a lifeline, and they somehow managed to grab it. Six added minutes had been played when up popped Thomas Warren to earn the visitors a point, and it leaves them in third place, seven points behind Bury with two games in hand. The Yachtsmen are twenty first, four points from safety- and Stefan Peck’s image shows how both players and fans felt after that late leveller. Football in a nutshell, eh?

Maldon and Tiptree’s form under new boss Brett Munyard has shown a marked improvement, and they delivered a second win in two after coming from behind to defeat hosts Haringey Borough with a desperately late goal. Borough went ahead midway through the first half, Georgios Aresti scoring his fifth of the season, only for one of the Jammers new arrivals, Darren Phillips, to draw his side level on the hour. Haringey have become rather good at losing matches from a winning position, but it looked as if they’d take a point from this one, only for Phillips to decide otherwise. There were six added minutes on the clock when the Jammers defender popped up with his third goal in two matches, this one an effort from distance, and earned his new side three more points right at the death. Maldon are up to seventeenth, Borough two points from safety in nineteenth. 

There were only nine minutes on the clock when Jayden Randell put Cambridge City ahead at Newmarket Town, but that was the best moment of the night for the visitors, who spent much of the rest of the match chasing their tails. Ten minutes before half time Ben Robinson levelled for the Jockeys, and they were ahead at the break, Stan Leech making it two-one in added time. Leech enjoyed scoring so much that he wanted to do it again, and it took him only two minutes of the second half to do just that and make it three-one, and the hosts added a fourth fifteen minutes from time, Efraim Co Romanos making the points entirely safe. Jack Thompson had the last word for City, bringing it back to four-two, but it was comfortable for the Jockeys, who close to within two points of safety- and to within three points of sixteenth place City.