Southern Counties East League round-up: Deal Town reach last eight of FA Vase, Erith Town into Kent Senior Trophy Final, Lordswood shock Faversham Town in Premier Division

Deal kept their FA Vase dream alive after a penalty shoot-out win at Bridgwater United in round five on Saturday.

Having led 2-0 after 20 minutes, Deal saw their lead wiped out and had to play the final half-hour with 10 men after Macauley Murray collected two yellow cards.

Deal lead after two minutes through Tom Chapman’s 25-yarder and he then turned provider for Rory Smith to double their advantage.

But Bridgwater responded when Ben Griffith scored on 54 minutes and Deal were then reduced to 10 men. The home side made it 2-2 through Jack Thorne with 20 minutes left and then had a goal ruled out for offside.

The tie went to penalties and it was Deal who booked a Quarter-Final trip to Lincoln United by winning the shoot-out 6-5.

Lincoln drew 2-2 at Hallam in their Fifth-Round game and then went through via a penalty shoot-out, 7-6.

Erith Town will play either Whitstable or Croydon in the Kent Senior Trophy Final after putting lower-league Larkfield & New Hythe to the sword.

The Dockers ran out 8-2 winners after racing into a three-goal lead inside 19 minutes and were 8-0 ahead just after the hour mark.

Harry Taylor led the way with a hat-trick, James Dyer scored twice with Ladic Melconian, Ollie Milton and Jake Lovell rounding off their tally. A Matt Day penalty and Kwasi Amaoh added consolation goals for Larkfield in the last seven minutes. Larkfield had keeper Jordan Carey red-carded when it was 5-0.

Lordswood are a much-changed team from the side that won at Faversham in the Kent Senior Trophy in November but they ensured that lightning still struck twice by winning their Southern Counties East Premier Division clash on Saturday.

Lords raced into a 3-0 half-time lead and Nicky Southall’s men did enough in the second