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Nathan Jeche scored on 26 minutes and Freddie Nyhus added a stoppage-time second as Sevenoaks Town won 2-0 at Steyning Town, their third successive league win and a climb to seventh.

Maidstone United led at half-time through a Nana Boateng penalty, but Jack Stretton scored twice in four minutes as Truro City won 2-1 at the Gallagher Stadium, the Stones' second straight league defeat.

Courtney Barrington scored three and Nathan Jeche two as Sevenoaks Town beat Eastbourne Town 5-0 at Bourne Stadium, a second successive league win that lifts them into the top ten after a winless start.

Greatness Football & Community Centre, Sevenoaks Town FC's new clubhouse funded by over £2 million from the Premier League, the FA and Sevenoaks Town Council, was officially opened on 18 September - with a green wall, solar panels and an air source heat pump, and a new playground and outdoor gym planned next door this autumn.

Maidstone United's Emirates FA Cup run ended at the first hurdle again, beaten 2-0 by Isthmian Premier side Cray Wanderers in a replay at the Gallagher Stadium, with Ola Ogunwamide's first-half strike and a stoppage-time Ade Yusuff goal settling it.

Eight results in eight days for West Kent's Southern Counties East clubs: Bearsted and Tunbridge Wells each won one and lost one, Rusthall lost back-to-back Premier Division games either side of a midweek win, Staplehurst Monarchs won away in the First Division, Larkfield & New Hythe salvaged a stoppage-time draw, and Snodland Town came from 3-1 down to snatch a point in stoppage time.

Tonbridge Angels came from behind to beat Isthmian Premier side Ramsgate 2-1 in the FA Cup Second Qualifying Round, on a day the club paused before kick-off to honour president and former chairman Steve Churcher, who died earlier this month.

Maidstone United Women's FA Cup campaign came to an end with a 2-0 defeat away at Tooting Bec, a disputed early-second-half free-kick and a stoppage-time second sending the Stones out of the competition for the second time in three seasons.

Nathan Jeche scored either side of Margate's equaliser as Sevenoaks Town won 2-1 at Bourne Stadium, a first league victory of the season against a Margate side who arrived in the division's top four.