It's a w-w-w-w-winning w-w-w-w-weekend for Ringmer AFC

The WWWWW weekend was topped by the first and second teams producing a day of goals in their home games, with 14 going in.

The thirds kick-started their season with victory on the road, whilst the fours maintained their unbeaten start and newly formed Ringmer AFC Ladies won their first fixture.

Here’s how all five teams fared...

Ringmer AFC 5 Balcombe 4

Ringmer AFC went 1-0 ahead inside five minutes when George Rudwick released Ben Earle, who took the first of his three goals calmly.

But for two exceptional saves from Joe Whiting, the visitors would have been ahead by more than the two goals scored by Tom Hawkins and Jamie Weston.

Ringmer levelled against the run of play on the brink of half-time. Rudwick again found Earle, who finished clinically.

Poor individual defending led to a double from Balcombe, through Weston and Ed Murrills.

In response Ringmerintroduced Sam Sowter as an attacking replacement for Ben Gardner, and Kieran Piper replaced injured Louis Munnery.

Sam Strutt went close and after Glenn Hunt was fouled inside the area a Ben Earle penalty was well saved,.

Rudwick got his reward for finding space on the right and a well-taken one on one was quickly followed by a third assist for Earle’s hat trick to make it 4-4.

With four minutes left, a Ringmer set piece was cleared to centre-half Harry Oliverwho collected the ball 40 yards from goal and struck an unstoppable winner.

Ringmer wish a quick recovery to Balcombe’s Chris Maynard who suffered a nasty facial injury.They also praised young referee Dan Head, who managed a challenging game with excellent maturity.

MoM was Andy Cramp.

RingmerAFC 2s 3 Willingdon Ath 2s 2

Left-back Brett Johnson scored Ringmer’s opener after an excellent angled long pass from Harry Barnett. A quick freekick from Will May into the path of Charles Porter saw him make it 2-0. With the move of the game Louis Pirie provided a beautiful cross met by substitute

Joe Robinsons, who headed home.

Ringmer relaxed and let Willingdon back in with two long balls resulting in two goals.

MoM was Brett Johnson.

Polegate 2s 1 Ringmer AFC 3s 2

Two headers from early set-pieces from Lewis Ward and Rob May put Ringmer in a strong position at half-time.

Polegate scored with 30 minutes left,

MoM was Joshua Dean.

Fairfield 2 Ringmer AFC 4s 4

Ringmer 4ths continued their unbeaten run with a 4-2 victory over Fairfield 2s to go top of division five.

Chris Callow (2), Harry Denness and Marc Whiteman scored while James Peck saved a penalty. MoM was Jackson Kelly.

Premier Ladies 1 Ringmer AFC Ladies 3

In their first fixture, first half goals from Dani Jacobs set the tone and a third from Penny Shirley in the second half made sure it was a great start.

Premier were thwarted by keeper Katie Ryan, playing her first game in that position. PoM: Caroline Moleton.