St. Albans On Downward Spiral

After topping the league recently St. Albans have now lost there last three games suffering a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Thurock on Monday night. All this despite taking the lead inside the first minute through Dean Cracknell. They were however overcome in the second half with two goals from Steve Harper eventually giving the home side the victory. Many expected Thurrock to do well this season but they have really yet to play well and are languising in 12th place. St.Albans may have lost three on the bounce but they still stay 3rd.

The only other game in Conference South on Monday saw Havant & Waterlooville move into 5th place after defeating Hampshire rivals Basingstoke Town 2-0 at Westleigh park. It was Rocky Baptiste who opened the scoring for Havant & Waterlooville just 12 minutes into the match and his goal was followed by a long spell of pressure on the Basingstoke goal. After missing many chances the game was eventually seales when Baptiste made it 8 for the season and 2 on the night. This defeat means Basingstoke are now 13th in the league.