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Gene Kennedy and Kwesi Appiah scored either side of a Frankie Baker reply as Ebbsfleet United beat Tonbridge Angels 2-1 at Longmead, ending Angels' run of three wins and two draws in the league.

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.

Tonbridge Angels host Ramsgate on Saturday in the FA Cup Second Qualifying Round, hoping to extend a history that includes seven appearances in the competition's First Round Proper and Longmead's record crowd, set just two years ago.

Bearsted hit seven at Epsom & Ewell and Rusthall put four past AFC Walcountians to reach the FA Vase third qualifying round, Staplehurst Monarchs' cup run ended at Corinthian, and Tunbridge Wells were held to a draw by Snodland Town in the league.

Tonbridge Angels extended their unbeaten away record but couldn't find a winner at Hemel Hempstead Town, drawing 1-1 in a match assistant manager Larry McAvoy called "two points dropped".

Maidstone United manager Craig Fagan and Tonbridge Angels winger Jephte Tanga - a former Stones player - have won National League South's Manager and Player of the Month awards for August, a rare double for two West Kent clubs from the same division.

A late Tom Leahy goal gave leaders Maidstone United a 1-0 win at Tonbridge Angels in the A26 derby, their fifth in a row, despite Angels dominating long spells in front of a 2,260 crowd at Longmead.

Rusthall beat Kennington 3-1 and Larkfield & New Hythe ended a four-match losing run with a draw at Beckenham, while most of West Kent's other Southern Counties East clubs had a free weekend.