Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District
Bourne sinks his former club
Faversham returned to winning ways in Bostik South on Tuesday night with a 1-0 success in the Swale derby against Sittingbourne.
The victory – which secured Town’s first points at the Shepherd Neame Stadium this season – also avenged a 2-1 Kent Senior Cup defeat to the Brickies seven days earlier.
Matt Bourne scored the only goal after 30 minutes, heading in a deep corner from Danny Walder at the far post, to seal the points against his former club.
Town had suffered a fourth straight league defeat on Saturday after going down 2-1 at Carshalton.
Lilywhites keeper Simon Overland turned a Jordan Cheadle free-kick past the post on 14 minutes but from the resulting corner by Tommy Bradford, Mickel Miller headed home the opening goal. The lead was doubled just three minutes later as Overland pushed out a Miller cross but the ball was played to Bradford who squared for Raheem Sterling-Parker to smartly turn in.
George Monger tested keeper Richard Ossai from 30 yards with 13 minutes remaining but Overland had to keep out efforts from both scorers as Carshalton sought to increase the lead.
Town did pull a goal back when Sam Bewick picked up possession in the Robins half and cut inside before firing a 20-yard strike into the bottom corner in stoppage time.
Herne Bay made it three straight league wins with a 4-0 victory over VCD Athletic at Winch’s Field on Saturday. Bay banished the memory of the 10-1 League Cup defeat by Tonbridge four days previously and racked up their own 10th goal in three games against a side who themselves had won three on the spin.
Junior Aikhionbare showed Bay’s intent inside two minutes when his shot from outside the area was saved by Joe Mant and on 15 minutes, Aikhionbare was put clean through but Mant saved well again.
Aikhionbare was not to be denied, though and from Nassim Dukali’s free-kick, the ball fell to his feet and he side-stepped the defender to score.
Dukali shot the wrong side of the upright before the break while Bay keeper Ben Hunter came to the rescue right on half-time when he saved a Rashid Kamara volley.
The second half was virtually one-way traffic and the second goal arrived when Jake Embery held off a challenge, raced into the area and found the bottom corner.
VCD skipper Derek Duncan pulled Aikhionbare back in the box allowing Dukali to fire the third from the spot-kick with 22 minutes remaining.
The final goal came 13 minutes from time when Jack Steventon brought the ball out of his half and ran at the tiring defence, who kept back-pedalling, giving the Bay man space to find the top corner.
Bay bowed out of the Kent Reliance Senior Cup on Tuesday night, losing 3-1 at home to Margate in the second round.
The scores were level at 1-1 with 20 minutes left but Harry Stannard (2) and Liam Friend put Gate through.