New Year Ryman League round-up
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Cray Wanderers edged to a 3-2 win at Carshalton
Athletic to enhance their Ryman League Premier
Division promotion credentials.
Jack Clark was the hero with a brace for Wands, with Leigh
Bremner adding the other as Wands went sixth, outside the play-off
places on goal difference, but having played more games than the
sides around them.
Cray are also on nine points behind leaders Billericay.
Kwesi Appiah made it 32 goals in 29 appearances this season with
a hat-trick for Margate as they brushed past
Hastings United to make it nine points from nine over the festive
period.
Appiah put the hosts ahead after just two minutes and added his
second five minutes later and although the visitors pulled one back
after the break, Appiah made it 20 league goals for the season when
he notched his third shortly after the hour mark.
Tom Bradbrook sealed the win 18 minutes from time while Simon
Overland kept Hastings out at the other end with some key
saves.
The win took Gate up to ninth and within five points of the
play-off places, with at least one game in hand on the sides above
them.
After 14 goals in their previous two games, Folkestone
Invicta needed only one to see-off Whitstable
Town in a Ryman League Division 1
South derby at the Belmont.
Defender Josh Burchell bagged the only goal in the 89th minute
to make it seven straight wins for Invicta, who went third, just
two points off the top of the table.
After consecutive losses the Oystermen are 19th and just five
points ahead of the drop-zone.
Maidstone United continued their return to form
with a 3-0 win over landlords Sittingbourne at
Bourne Park.
The Stones made it three straight wins and are six points off
the leaders after Alex Waugh opened the scoring on 32 minutes.
Sam Groombridge doubled the lead 19 minutes from time and two
minutes later Shaun Welford made the points safe, heading his 24th
goal of the season.
Sittingbourne have slipped to 16th having lost three straight
and are winless in six league games.
Hythe Town made it back-to-back wins after
their derby drubbing at Folkestone, edging past
Ramsgate 3-2 at Reachfields after a blistering
second half.
Kane Rice put Scott Porter's side ahead five minutes into the
second half but Ramsgate turned the game on its head with two goals
in three minutes shorty after the hour from Ian Pulman and Gareth
Cornhill.
However Hythe made it seven wins from nine league games and
opend-up a five point gap over 10th-placed Merstham after a Dave
Cook penalty on 69 minutes and a Brendon Cass winner six minutes
later.
Ramsgate are 11th, five points behind 9th-placed Hythe.
Chatham Town overcame Tilbury 3-0 in Ryman
League Division 1 North.
Lloyd Blackman headed the opener on 14 minutes and Gary Tilley
doubled the advantage on the stroke of half-time from a narrow
angle.
Tilley grabbed his second a minute from time with a superb solo
strike which ended a run of two straight losses for the Chats who
rise to 13th.
They are only two points behind Thamesmead Town
who recorded a 1-0 win at Romford thanks to Lea Dawson's header 20
minutes from time.
Tuesday, January 03 2012
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