Poole Town 1-2 Hanwell Town

Hanwell's extended run of games without a defeat grew to five with this excellent away win at Poole Town.

Our side showed one change from that which had beaten Folkestone Invicta the previous Saturday with Elliott Benyon replacing the suspended Alfie Pendlebury after he had reached the benchmark of five yellow cards. It was Elliot's first time in the starting line up since our opening game of the season way back in early August. Driving down to Poole in the team coach it seemed likely that the game would be called off due to the dreadful weather, a fate suffered at several other games in the area but ours survived and the pitch was perfectly playable.

Play was very even in the opening fifteen minutes with the only incident of note being a scramble in the Poole goalmouth as the home team failed to deal with a Danny Carr free kick. Five minutes later an excellent Poole build up saw Sam Beasant race off his line to scramble the ball to safety. Minutes later another good move down the right culminated in a Tyler Forbes cross but there was no Poole player up in support to apply the finishing touch.

The Geordies took the lead in the 25th minute when good work by Mat MacKenzie saw the ball reach a totally unmarked Dan Carr in the home side's penalty area and he rifled the ball home. Play continued to flow from end to end up to the half time whistle but before which Poole's Ezio Touray saw his header hit the cross bar and Sam then made a great follow up save from Harvey Slade.

Poole were the brighter side in the early stages and equalised in the 53rd minute. An excellent run down the wing by Dario De Lica set up Touray to fire his shot into the corner of the net. It felt like the momentum had swung to Poole but minutes later on the hour mark, a remarkable overhead kick by Carr way out on the left flank saw the ball find the far corner of the home side's net with goalkeeper Cam Plain left stranded.

Skipper Sam Beasant then made a tremendous save to deny Touray as he raced clear from midfield. Poole's hopes were thwarted when their right back Oakley Hanger was sent off with just 15 minutes remaining.

Town held out reasonably comfortably as the minutes ticked away and should have increased their lead deep into injury time when substitute Kameron English found himself right through with only the keeper to beat who was yards out of his goal but instead of trying to round him, Kameron tried to chip the ball over him but only succeeded in shooting straight at the keeper.

HANWELL TOWN 1.Sam Beasant 2.Emerson Sutton 3. Dan Carr 4. Callum Woodcock 5. Dwayne Duncan 6. Harry Seabrook 7. Chris Regis 8. Mat MacKenzie 19. Elliot Benyon 10. Jordan Edwards

11.Ezekiel Coker Sonukan (87 Kameron English 12). Unused substitutes 14 Nathanael Boayke 15.

Rudi Pache 16. Rod Orlando-Young 20 Ryan Case