Boreham Wood secured a 3-0 victory after two defeats on the bounce in the league

Boreham Wood 3-0 Eastbourne Borough: Penalty heroics inspire Wood!

By Brett Lewis

BOREHAM WOOD 3

Appiah 53, 58, Rush 56
EASTBOURNE B 0

A penalty save from Boreham Wood keeper Nathan Ashmore and three quickfire goals – in what Eastbourne Borough boss Adam Murray described as “five minutes of madness” – turned this game on its head in the National League South.
Ashmore’s heroics to keep out George Alexander’s spot-kick lifted Wood.
The home side ruthlessly dominated their promotion rivals with a double from Kwesi Appiah, either side of a Matt Rush effort, all in five blistering second-half minutes.
“We needed that,” relieved Wood manager Luke Garrard told ...

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