Eastbourne Borough 5 v 2 Bath City National League South Eastbourne Borough’s momentum continues as Tommy Widdrington’s side swept past Bath City at Priory Lane Saturday afternoon.

Two from Nathaniel Pinney, and a brace for Jack Evans, and then a late goal from Ina Simpemba cancelled out Nick McCootie and Dave Pratt’s goal for Bath.

The Sports were boosted this week as Widdrington signed former Borough player Jamie Taylor on loan from Margate; the striker had two spells with the Sports and scored 39 goals.

Borough took the lead inside the first five minutes after a lovely move involving Kane Haysman, Pinney and then Evans finished off the chance with aplomb.

It was a neat move which started with Sam Beale throwing the ball into Pinney who cushioned the ball into the path of Haysman; the midfielder showed good awareness to lay the ball to Evans who fired low past Steve Phillips in the Bath goal.

Despite conceding the early goal Bath looked composed on the ball, and they thought they had equalised in the 20th minute when Andy Watkins floated in a good ball into McCootie, but his goal-bound header was blocked by Beale on the line.

And just after Bath missing that glorious chance, the visitors shot themselves in the foot as Andy Gallinagh’s back-pass just about reached Phillips, but Pinney charged down his kick and unfortunately for Bath the ball trickled into the net to hand Borough a comfortable cushion.

The visitors found a route back into the game after Pratt capitalised on Lewis Carey’s poor drop-kick. Pratt picked up the ball with 30 yards remaining and the forward drove back into the box and slotted past Carey to make it 2-1.

Bath completed their comeback just before the half-time interval when Watkins who had been a constant danger all afternoon was put through down the left hand side.

His cross was met by the onrushing McCootie who made up for early miss by calmly slotting home to add another dimension to what was already an intriguing game.

Immediately after the restart Borough took the lead again through Pinney. The move was started by the goal scorer who flicked the ball into the path of Taylor, the former Sports striker returned the favour, and Pinney made no mistake as he fired a volley past Phillips.

Borough doubled their advantage through a penalty as Bath’s goal scorer McCootie handled in the box from a Beale free-kick. Evans stepped up and thrashed the ball into the top corner via the underside of the bar.

Pinney nearly had his hat-trick, after Elliot Romain persisted and got himself to the byline and delivered a teasing cross which found its way to Pinney, but his effort was saved by Phillips.

Borough put the game to bed as the game was heading into the final ten minutes. Simpemba rose highest to head home Evans inch perfect free-kick.

That’s three wins from three now as Borough look to put a sticky Christmas period behind them as they take strides to being safe in the division for another season.

Teams Eastbourne Borough: L. Carey, C. Stone, J. Evans (R. Worrall, 86), I. Simpemba (c), K. Khinda-John, E. Romain (D. Lok, 72), N. Collier, N. Pinney, J. Taylor, K. Haysman (G. McCallum, 83) Substitutes: M. Baptista, D. Gregory Bath City: S. Phillips, A. Gallinagh (c), D. Greenslade, M. Coupe, J. Batten, A. Kington, D. Bowman (E. Richards, 40), F. Artus, D. Pratt (B. Adelsbury, 74), N. McCootie, A. Watkins Substitutes: B. Williams, C. Hemmings, D. Ball