Ten-man Whitstable Town won 2-1 at Godalming to move out of the Ryman League Division 1 South drop-zone for the first time in months.

Louis Smith fired the visitors ahead on nine minutes and Ian Pulman missed the chance to make it 2-0 from the spot when his weak penalty was saved.

The hosts levelled from a penalty 20 minutes from time, with Scott Heard sent-off for Town for picking up two bookings from his side's total of nine for the game.

Lloyd Blackman won the points for the Oystermen with a tremendous turn and 20-yard shot late-on.

Faversham Town jumped up to eighth after beating title-chasing Whitehawk 2-1 at the Shepherd Neame Stadium.

Goals from Dane Luchford and Damian Abel (pictured) were enough to secure the win in Town's best performance of the season, which leaves them seven points off a play-off place with a game in hand,

Beleagured Sittingbourne are heading in the opposite direction and are five games without a win after going down 3-0 at Dulwich Hamlet.

Despite only one player having left the club in the wake of the announcement the players and staff can no longer be paid, the Brickies slipped to seventh, six places off a play-off place after conceding two first-half goals and a third late-on.

Defender Jack Hooper needed hospital attention after a clash with the Hamlet goalkeeper, but is understood to have just bruised ribs.

Ramsgate are 11th after drawing 1-1 with Walton & Hersham.

Paul Axon rifled them ahead on 34 minutes after beating two men, but the hosts levelled shortly before the interval after some defensive hesitancy.

Chatham Town went down 2-1 at Corinthian Casuals and are four points clear of the drop-zone.

The hosts took the lead just after the half-hour but Leroy Huggins levelled from the spot soon after, only for Casuals to go ahead three minutes before the break.

Billy Shinners struck the post 20 minutes from time but the Chats' task of levelling was made all the harder when Kane Rice and Brad Potter were dismissed in the closing stages for needless fouls.