What Happened In The National League South On Saturday?

By Sam Elliott

With the top two rained off, the focus fell on fancied Havant & Waterlooville to try close the gap.

They couldn’t take advantage with late, late drama at Braintree Town.

Paul Doswell must have thought it was job done 3-2 up in the 95th minute at Cressing Road but Rhys Murrell-Williamson had other ideas, completing his hat-trick in the dying seconds.

Bath City joined them on 36 points, leaving it very late themselves to in 2-1 at Eastbourne as Alex Hartridge won it in the 92nd minute.

Dorking Wanderers are in the hunt now too - a fine 3-2 win at Maidstone United, Jason Prior completing the fightback - a third win a row for Marc White’s men.

Dulwich Hamlet lost super fan Mishi Morath this week and there was no doubt their much-needed 4-1 win at Hungerford was for him. Danny Mills wrapped up the points after Dylan Kearney got things going with his first goal for the club.

St Albans needed a win too and they got it somewhere not many expected.

A valiant 1-0 success at Weymouth lifted the Saints off the bottom of the table.

Tonbridge boosted their survival chances with a 1-1 draw at Hemel but they were denied a win by a late home leveller.

Concord Rangers are up to ninth as they held firm to win 1-0 at Dartford. A Joel Nouble penalty took the points home to Essex.

Chippenham Town gave their season a boost, winning at home to Chelmsford - David Pratt and Curtis McDonald scoring the goals.

National League South results:
Braintree Town 3-3 Havant
Chippenham 2-1 Chelmsford
Dartford 0-1 Concord
Eastbourne 1-2 Bath City
Hemel H 1-1 Tonbridge
Hungerford 1-4 Dulwich
Maidstone United 2-3 Dorking
Weymouth 0-1 St Albans

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