Peacehaven and Crowborough fought out an entertaining draw on Saturday, which both sides will have felt they should have won. It was a result which took Peacehaven into the top five for the first time this season, and extended their unbeaten run into double figures.

For Crowborough it was an encouraging result in a rather inconsistant season, but Dave Adams will probably feel that his sides second half performance merited all three points.

Peacehaven brought Craig Bunch into the starting line up to replace Andy Wilkinson, who has returned to America, and had Ashley Rees available for the first time in eight games. The combination of those two alongside Ryan Bradley and Rob O'Toole promises to make for an exciting end to the season.
Crowborough went into the match on the back of a five match unbeaten run, but they were on the back foot from the start on Saturday.

Peacehaven had plenty of the ball, but their attacking moves were repeatedly breaking down in midfield, much to the frustration of their forwards. It was compounding the angst incurred by the hundred and twenty minute shut out against Rustington, and it was becoming hard to see where a goal would come from.

When it did come it was a spectacular strike. Tom Levitt played an intelligent pass to Bradley who fed Bunch, and he chipped over Ben Head and into the roof of the net.  Bradley came agonisingly close to adding a second shortly before the break, but the match changed completely after half time.

With the wind at their back Crowborough started to force the visitors back and put pressure on a hitherto untroubled defence.  They got their reward when Tom

Nowell drove in a spectacular strike from the edge of the box. It was an excellent goal, though Peacehaven will feel it could have been avoided had the midfielder been shut down earlier.

Peacehaven were rocking now, and almost fell behind when Charlie Ottway sneaked in behind Aaron Gunn, but was unable to beat Joe Adams.

The momentum then shifted again as Peacehaven started to regain control of midfield, and pushed on looking for the win. Bunch and Bradley both had opportunities but they were unable to make their pressure pay, and had to settle for a point.

Report by Alex Panton