Buxted Earnt themselves a heartening Christmas present with a handsome win (Their first league points) over Scaynes Hill II the division 5 high flyers.  A decent playing surface enabled the more skilled Buxted side to perform close to their potential, following the debacle in the mud the previous Saturday.

The writing was on the wall for the impressive looking home side, when despite early pressure on the reshuffled Buxted back line, Buxted took the lead on 30 minutes – a fine cross field ball from Ricky Parish neatly lobbed over the keeper by Adam Smith.  Two more well taken goals in the second half wrapped the game up – the first from Stuart Cairns latching on to a headed through ball by Ben Thomas, the second to Noodles when Scaynes hill were unable to clear a Dean Morris out-swinging corner.

Buxted had other chances to add to the score but tellingly, Scaynes Hill were confined to long range efforts, easily mopped up by Clive Whyte – although one did scrap the post.  This win was based on sound skilful defence with Ricky Parish and Kevin McDougall giving accomplished performances and Richard Turner and Russ Kurd shutting down the wings.  Our Midfield were posing all sorts of problems, Dale McIvor and JJ Moody were outstanding and nicely balanced the tireless running of Adam Smith and Ben Thomas.  Dean Morris later posed different problems with his left foot crosses and was unlucky not to score…with his right foot!  Up front Noodles and Stuart Cairns constantly menaced the Scaynes Hill goal.

Buxted trooped off Wearily, because Scaynes Hill fought hard to the end, but at least they had collected the points.  Welcome back to Stuart Cairns, following a long period of injury and a thank you to Adam Smith and Kevin McDougall for filling in at very late notice, also to Dave Butcher and Dougie for touchline support.  This was a good Saturday for the club, and with games in hand gives the seconds a chance to avoid the drop.