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HASTINGS United kept up their 100 per cent record and went top of the table with a comfortable 3-0 win at home to previously unbeaten
Phoenix Sports.
United dominated from the start and the opening goal came on 24 minutes when leading scorer Daniel Ajakaiye slotted home from eight yards after Steve Phillips had palmed the ball out.
Two goals in three minutes early in the second half then made the points safe. Firstly, Ajakaiye beat a defender outside the area before firing low past Phillips and Jack Dixon found the net with a header following a free-kick on the left.
Cray Wanderers also have 12 points from 12 after they scored either side of half-time to down
East Grinstead 2-0. Junior Dadson had already hit the bar for Cray when Callum Emptage put through his own goal and Ben Mundele secured the victory on the hour mark with a tidy finish.
Whyteleafe are another side with a 100 per cent record after winning 3-1 against an impressive Horsham side, who themselves played some good football.
Leafe took the lead on 12 minutes as Bradley Wilson's corner was cleared back to him, he took the ball to the edge of the box and shot home via a slight deflection.
Eddie D'Sane increased the lead midway through the half when he was brought down in the penalty box and gave keeper Josh Pelling no chance from the spot.
Horsham pulled one back in the 36th minute when Lewis Hyde headed home from a free-kick but Leafe restored their twogoal advantage on the stroke of half-time with a great curling shot from Harrison Carnegie.
The final side with four wins from four are VCD
Athletic who had a Leon Lalor-Dell double to thank as they beat Three
Bridges 2-1. The Vickers first breached a stubborn visiting defence when Lalor-Dell scored directly from a 30th minute direct free-kick.
The second half was a very even affair but a Vickers break in the 65th minute allowed Lalor-Dell to go one-on-one with the keeper and coolly slot in his second of the game.
A defensive lapse allowed Tyrone Berry to pull one back for Three Bridges on 72 minutes but VCD held on.
Elsewhere, a Nassim Dukali hat-trick helped
Thamesmead Town edge a nine-goal thriller 5-4 against Sittingbourne to secure their first points of the season.
Tom Loynes took less than a minute to give Sittingbourne the lead but Dukali’s treble and Richard Pacquette’s 33rdminute effort had Thamesmead 4-3 up by half-time – Dan Parkinson and Lewis Chambers getting the visitors’ other goals.
The second half was slightly calmer as Trey Williams made it 5-3 to the hosts before Nathan Elder set up a grandstand finish 15 minutes from time.
Haywards Heath fell to their second 1-0 home defeat of the season as
Hythe Town snatched all three points deep into second half injury-time when Zak Ansah smashed in a loose ball. Elsewhere, Greenwich
Borough beat Herne Bay 2-1– Borough’s Teshuane Walters heading in at the far post from the very first attack but Bradley Schafer nodded Bay level.
Walters restored Boro’s lead – volleying across the keeper, into the top corner from outside the box – before the game changed on half-time when Andrew Sesay saw red.
Tom Carlton should have snatched Bay a draw in injury-time but his penalty brought a brilliant one-handed save from Brighton loanee goalkeeper Tom McGill and gave Boro the victory they deserved.
Finally, two goals from skipper Harry Goodger and one from Jack Harris gave Faversham a 3-1 victory over Sevenoaks, while Charlton Gauvain’s stunning 89th-minute lob from the halfway line sealed Guernsey a 2-1 victory over Ramsgate.