Vs. Hawkhurst II (A)
Starting XI	Substitutes:
Simon Cutler
Owen Davies
Doug Morris
Steve Chapman
Darrell Hartley
Pete Cooper
Andy Mills (c)
Dave Mills
Chris Mammone	(75 Paul Ford)
Gary Walsh
Luke Miller	(45 Bryn Frere-Smith)
Referee: J White
Goal: Morris (51)
HT Score: 0-0
FT Score: 1-1

Battle stopped a run of consecutive defeats with a hard-earned point at Hawkhurst.

With the two teams sitting next to each other in the table it was always going to be a close encounter and so it proved to be, with both sides deserving their point.

Hawkhurst started the sharper, with Baptist keeper Simon Cutler producing two saves in the opening ten minutes to keep it goalless, one a smart stop at his near post and the other a volley that he did well to hold when it was hit at him from only a few yards.

With the Hawkhurst defence sweeping up well chances were not forthcoming for the away side but the industrious Pete Cooper broke down the left on a couple of occasions, dragging his shot wide with his first effort and making the keeper save a well hit shot with his second. Chris Mammone then found himself played in by Cooper but the keeper beat him to the ball before he was wrongly given offside when bursting through again.

Keeper Cutler was involved again when he got down well do smother a dipping volley as the half time whistle came to separate the two sides.

Bryn Frere-Smith entered the fray for the second half and immediately made his physical presence felt upfront. Battle took the lead soon in when Mammone got hold of a half-cleared corner and fed Owen Davies, whose hanging cross was superbly judged and headed home by Doug Morris.

Cutler then again excelled, making two terrific saves on the hour mark, the second a great parry after the Hawkhurst striker had cut in from the left and lashed the ball goalwards.

Paul Ford then came on for a tiring Mammone as the game reached its tense climax. Hawkhurst exerted lots of pressure on the Baptist defence and they finally broke through in the 94^th minute when a corner was headed towards the post and deflected in of the despairing Davies on the goal-line. There was still six minutes of injury time to be played during which Hawkhurst almost stole all three points as they crashed a twenty yard drive off the bar with the last kick of the game.

A draw was a fair result between two of the leading sides in the division and as late as the Hawkhurst equaliser was, it was a true reflection of the pressure and territory they had had.