Broadbridge Heath travelled away to Isthmian Central side Badshot Lea looking to progress through to the 2nd Qualifying round of the FA Trophy for the 1st time in the club's history.

Heath Manager Chris Simmons made four changes to the starting eleven that beat Faversham in the FA Cup on Tuesday, rotating the squad to share the workload in a busy run of fixtures.

The young home side started the better of the two sides and were playing some excellent football without troubling the Heath goal, the first real shot of the game came on 17 minutes when Matt Penfold found space 25 yards out from goal and his long range effort was comfortably saved by the Badshot Keeper. On 23 minutes the home side should of gone in front when a break down the right hand side was crossed in but the young Badshot forward shot wide of the target.
Heath were causing the home side problems from all set pieces and on 32 minutes a free kick by Callum Dowdell was met by Tad Bromage, his header cannoned of the post but fellow Centre Back partner Sal Marino smashed in the rebound to give Heath the lead 0-1.
Only two minutes later a long throw by Sim caused problems in the Badshot box and Owen Cranmer-Flynn scored his first goal for Broadbridge Heath to make it 0-2.
The home side were still pushing and had another good opportunity just before half time but this time a great block from Bromage kept the score line at 0-2.

Heath started the 2nd half much better and after only a couple of minutes a good move down the left hand side found Dowdell in space and he unleashed a shot from distance, his curling effort was just wide of the target. On 55 minutes an attack down the right from James Archard found Oli Leslie and his pinpoint cross to Dowdell and he smashed the ball past the Badshot keeper. 0-3

Badshot never gave up and came straight back at Heath and forced Hadfield into an excellent save, on 75 minutes Heath scored again with the goal of the game, the ball fell to Charlie Parmiter 25 yards out and his curling effort flew past the diving Badshot keeper to make it 0-4 and kill the game off.

So the Bear's progress into the 2nd Qualifying round of the FA Trophy for the first time in the club's history.

Simmo said afterwards: I am really pleased with the result after a tough week, the lads have been really working hard and are starting to see the rewards. Badshot are an excellent young side and moved the ball around really well but just lacked a bit of experience, its not often i can say that we looked bigger and more physical than an opponent at this level. We looked a bit leggy from Tuesday's efforts but in the end we were excellent and it was great to see four different scorers and of course a clean sheet.

MOM: Matt Penfold

Team: Hadfield, Sim, Dyson (Chesworth 70), Penfold, Bromage, Marino (Archard 55), Dowdell (Lindsey 60), Buchanan, Cranmer-Flynn, Evans (Hay 60), Leslie (Parmiter 70).