AFC Newbury are up to second having stretched their 100 per cent start to six games with a 3-1 home win over basement boys Downton.

With Mitch Blake having quit last week, Downton's manager-in-waiting Jeff Softley, the former Bemerton reserve boss, watched from the stands as Danny Mattingley, Ryan Williams and Lee Chudy (penalty) put his new charges to the sword. Danny Alpin bagged the Wiltshire side's reply from a free kick.

AFC Totton left it late to seal a 1-0 home result over Bournemouth Poppies courtesy of Gareth Byers' 85th-minute winner.