Goals either side of half-time were enough for Boreham Wood to continue their push for the title while the hosts are now deeper in National League South relegation trouble.
St Albans City will be satisfied with a point from this away clash at Salisbury in the National League South, where they played with ten men from the hour.
A CONTEST that promised much, and began brightly, finished in a sort of scrapping shapelessness as Eastbourne Borough – who had led since the ninth minute – clung on in the face of a St Albans City fightback.