Worthing were unable to break down a Kingstonian team that played three-quarters of the game a man light and, needed a penalty save by Carl Rushworth to preserve a point.
Two goals in a minute just shy of the hour mark turned this game back in Worthing’s favour, after Dayshonne Golding had cancelled out Connor Hunte’s first goal for the club.
Red’s promotion-winning winger, Ira Jackson returned to Woodside Road to blow Worthing away with a late winner and reduce their lead to two points - but still with a healthy advantage over the rest of the play-off places.
Worthing slipped quietly out of the Velocity Trophy at the quarter-final stage, with ex-player Zack Newton starting the comeback, as Cheshunt cruised into the semis.
An individual mistake and a lapse in concentration cost Worthing three points and their eighteen-match unbeaten run but some solace was found in the fact that closest rivals, Folkestone and Hornchurch both lost too.
Reds returned from Bishop’s Stortford with three more hard-earned points against a side that can consider themselves unlucky not to get something out of the game.
Go one-nil down, equalise with an own goal, then win with a last minute penalty; job done (!)
It is said that the mark of a good team is picking up points when not playing well. That was certainly the case at Woodside Road on Saturday, as Worthing took seventy-four minutes to break down a nine-man Cheshunt before eventually running...
Worthing Women made it 11 straight league wins on Sunday, as they produced a dominant performance against a dogged Hassocks side at a rain soaked Beacon.
A much-changed Worthing laboured to a hard-fought win against a stubborn Leatherhead side to reach the quarter-finals of the Velocity Trophy.
