The Brickies triumph in a replay- and slay the Dover giant!
Sittingbourne were at home to Dover Athletic, another Kentish Isthmian battle. The Brickies are highly fancied in the South East promotion race and had won three of their four matches in League and Cup so far, whilst Athletic have promotion ideas of their own, and have scored almost twice as many Premier goals as anyone else so far, nineteen of them in five matches. If the visitors were favourites, it seems that nobody had told the hosts, who went two up in the first twenty five minutes, Henry Sinai and Ryan Kingsford sending the inhabitants of Blakey’s Shed wild. The match looked won when the final minutes arrived with the score unchanged, but it wasn’t, Mitch Walker pulling a goal back three minutes into added time and Alfie Matthews getting an equaliser two minutes later.
South East Sittingbourne came close to defeating Premier goal machines Dover Athletic at Woodstock Park on Saturday- and if you thought their chance had gone, think again! The Brickies travelled to the Crabble definite underdogs, but just like Saturday they took an early lead, Troy Howard opening the scoring on thirteen minutes. Unlike Saturday, however, they held that lead, taking a famous scalp and making most of the seven hundred and thirty four watching on thoroughly miserable.
