DERBY DAY IS CUT SHORT BY ILL FAN

YEOVIL TOWN’S title celebrations were put on hold after their southcoast derby at Weymouth was abandoned due to a medical incident in the crowd.

Players were taken off the pitch at the Bob Lucas Stadium after Yeovil fan Hayley Singleton fell ill in the crowd. Weymouth, led by Mark Molesley for the first time, were winning 1-0 at the time in front of a bumper crowd of 4,712.

Second place Chelmsford City were stunned by bottom club Dover Athletic, who registered only their fourth win of the season courtesy of a first-half Henry Young strike.

Aaron Blair’s second-half brace helped Braintree Town to a 2-0 win over Hemel Hempstead Town to stay third, while Maidstone United moved up to fourth courtesy of a 1-1 draw with much-improved Welling United on Monday and a 1-0 win at Taunton Town on Wednesday night. Mo Faal netted the Stones winner in a match played at Gloucester City.

It ensured back-to-back defeats for the struggling Peacocks after they went down 2-0 to Bath City on Monday – Cody Cooke and Jack

Bates netted for the Romans.

Brad Dolaghan bagged a brace as Worthing bolstered their promotion hopes with a 2-0 victory over play-off rivals Hampton & Richmond Borough, while Farnborough made it seven wins on the trot after coming from behind to win 2-1 at Tonbridge Angels. Joe Haigh and Oli Pendlebury were the men on target for Spencer Day’s Boro.

Shaun Jeffers netted a late penalty to hand St Albans City a 2-2 draw with Slough Town, while Eastbourne Borough leapfrogged Dartford out of the relegation zone thanks to Yahya Bamba’s double.

Weston-super-Mare twice came from behind to earn a point in a 3-3 draw with Torquay United, with former Gull Reuben Reid grabbing the all-important late equaliser, and Ryan Seager’s last minute winner helped Havant & Waterlooville to a vital win over play-off chasing Aveley

Chippenham Town and Truro City endless goalless.