ESSEX ALLIANCE LEAGUE

Premier Division

May & Baker EC ‘A’ surrendered their unbeaten record after losing 4-1 to Rainham Working Men’s Club on Saturday.

With eight wins from eight, May & Baker had not so much as dropped a point before Saturday, but came unstuck at home to Rainham to see their lead cut to five points.

Connor Kain, Billy Maynard, George Nobbs and Gary Holmes all struck for Rainham whilst Darren Seymour was on target for May & Baker.

Newham Reserves were 7-2 winners at Chingford Harriers, moving up to fifth as a result.

Dan Pereira and Benjamin Stone scored for Harriers who remain in tenth position.

Michael Mignolet scored twice as Chingford Athletic beat Eastside Rangers (London Community) 3-2.

Tobias Hayden scored the visitors’ third to keep Athletic in third place in the table.

Melbourne Sports and AAH Romford played out a goalless stalemate.

Division One

St Johns Deaf trail Blue Marlin by nine points at the summit, despite beating Glendale 9-2.

The second-placed side do still have three games in hand on the league leaders, who maintained their unbeaten start to the campaign.

A 3-2 win over Vittoriosa Falcons was enough for Blue Marlin to keep their sizeable advantage intact.

In fourth, London Bari Reserves beat bottom-of-the-league Chingford Town Reserves 4-1.

Jonathan Atkins, Jonatan Diallo Mosibe and Romeo Lopez all scored for London Bari with Ryan Folan hitting back for Chingford.

Three Colts picked up a routine 2-0 win at Lord Nelson with David Watson netting a brace to secure the points.

Division Two

West Essex Reserves crushed St Francis Reserves 7-3 away from home to move into fourth place.

Adam Norris hit a hat-trick and Jack McQuibban (2), Otis Gatehouse and Harry Finch also registered efforts.

Two-goal Marcel Byfield and Damien Williams were the St Francis scorers.

In the division’s only other fixture, leaders Leyton Green were knocked off the top by Grove United, who won 2-1.

Jayson McLeod and Harry Chalk were the match winners for United with Samin Mahamed Samali scoring Green’s consolation.