FORMER Portsmouth striker Warren Hunt marked his Fareham Town debut by wrecking the Wessex League's last 100 per cent record.
In the shock result of the night, Fareham upset Guy Whittingham's AFC Newbury 1-0 at Cams Alders.
Hunt, a regular scorer for Pompey reserves before going on loan to Leyton Orient last season, played with Louis Savage - son of Fareham's identically named boss - at schoolboy level for Hampshire and Portsmouth.
Savage senior said: "He played for me as a schoolboy and my assistant Louis Bell coached him at Portsmouth. He phoned me up out of the blue to ask if he could come to Fareham and he chose us because he knew us both."
With Town striker Floyd Hamodu ruled out by injury along with Savage junior, Hunt could not have signed at a more convenient time.
But his debut could have been a disaster after he hit the post with a first-half penalty given for a trip on Paul Morby.
Hunt reprieved himself midway through the second half when he side-footed home from a Lewis Fennemore corner.
Manager Savage said: "Newbury might have thought they deserved a draw, but they didn't have a clearcut chance."
Hamodu has been subject of a notice of approach from neighbours Gosport, who are free to speak to him today.
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