Bridges Draw

A point gained – or was it two points lost?  Yet again, Bridges had the lead, the fifth time in as many League games, but they still couldn’t hang on for that much needed win.

In fairness, Eastbourne were worthy of a share of the spoils by the final whistle after dominating long periods of the second half, but there were times when they owed much to the confident display of Chris Winterton in their goal.

He made a brilliant tip over from Reece Hallard after only five minutes and made another great stop to deny Kevin Rivera in the 34th minute. Eastbourne had sent an ambitious long range effort by JJ Walker that was comfortably held by Luke Glover, but it was probably against tge run of play when the home side took a 27th minute lead.

A great deal of time and space seemed to be offered them before a low cross from the left was met by an emphatic strike by the near post from LEON GREIG, who sadly limped off shortly before the interval.

Noel Leighton, able at present to play some midweek games for Bridges, was making his presence felt for the visitors though, and two minutes before half time, he crossed from the right for REECE HALLARD to stab over the line at the far post.

And four minutes into the second half, LEIGHTON headed Bridges in front from Rivera’s pinpoint cross. James Ding headed wide as Eastbourne tried to respond, but they needed Winterton on two occasions to deny Leighton on counter attacks.

Leighton himself gave way thanks to a leg injury and his replacement Elliott Romain was soon denied by Winterton. But it was Eastbourne who threatened with alarming regularity and sure enough they equalised after 81 minutes when a corner was knocked down to HARVEY GREIG to stab home. Glover made a good save to deny Freddie Warren and Marcin Ruda saw his header also saved as the game went into six added minutes. But the last good save was inevitably made by Winterton to deny Michael Samson, although a Bridges win would have been harsh on Town.

			Home				Away				Total
			P	W	D	L	P	W	D	L	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
	1	Beckenham Town	4	3	0	1	4	3	1	0	8	6	1	1	22	8	+14	19
	2	Ramsgate	3	3	0	0	2	2	0	0	5	5	0	0	15	4	+11	15
	3	Sheppey United	3	3	0	0	2	2	0	0	5	5	0	0	14	3	+11	15
	4	Erith Town	3	2	1	0	3	2	0	1	6	4	1	1	15	6	+9	13
	5	Sittingbourne	3	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	3	0	1	14	5	+9	9
	6	Burgess Hill Town	1	1	0	0	3	2	0	1	4	3	0	1	8	5	+3	9
	7	Margate	3	1	2	0	2	1	1	0	5	2	3	0	6	3	+3	9
	8	Deal Town	3	1	0	2	3	2	0	1	6	3	0	3	13	12	+1	9
	9	East Grinstead Town	3	1	0	2	3	1	2	0	6	2	2	2	9	9	0	8
	10	Eastbourne Town	3	0	1	2	2	2	0	0	5	2	1	2	8	9	-1	7
	11	Merstham	1	0	0	1	4	2	1	1	5	2	1	2	8	10	-2	7
	12	Sevenoaks Town	4	2	1	1	2	0	0	2	6	2	1	3	10	15	-5	7
	13	Broadbridge Heath	1	0	0	1	3	2	0	1	4	2	0	2	5	10	-5	6
	14	Hythe Town	4	2	0	2	3	0	0	3	7	2	0	5	4	18	-14	6
	15	AFC Croydon Athletic	3	0	2	1	3	1	0	2	6	1	2	3	8	11	-3	5
	16	Herne Bay	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	1	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
	17	Steyning Town Community	2	0	0	2	2	1	0	1	4	1	0	3	5	6	-1	3
	18	Littlehampton Town	2	0	0	2	2	1	0	1	4	1	0	3	8	12	-4	3
	19	Lancing	4	1	0	3	1	0	0	1	5	1	0	4	4	8	-4	3
	20	Three Bridges	3	0	0	3	2	0	2	0	5	0	2	3	8	12	-4	2
	21	Ashford United	1	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	4	0	2	2	6	12	-6	2
	22	Phoenix Sports	3	0	1	2	4	0	0	4	7	0	1	6	4	16	-12	1