After victory on Saturday over Arundel, the Crows were hoping to continue their momentum on Tuesday evening against a strong and experienced Rye United. The visitors were to prove too strong however, and ran out 2-0 winners.

The Crows had to reshuffle the team who beat Arundel with both goal scorers Scott Treleaven and Mike Culverhouse unavailable. Sam Carrington and Tom Pearson came into the side.

Rye started the stronger of the two sides and their physical strikeforce caused the Crows problems. The attacking movement of the visitors created them a number of chances but a mixture of both poor finishing and good keeping from Ben Head kept the score at 0-0. The Crows looked at their most threatening on the counter, Sam Carrington was dangerous over the top and the pace of Chris Ransome and Tom Pearson was always an outlet. However with 5 minutes until half time the Crows were hit with a quickfire double from Matt Maclean to send them in 0-2 down at the break.

The second half remained quite even without the Crows really threatening the Rye goal. Tom Pearson had a fizzing shot turned wide whilst the Crows won a number of free kicks in dangerous positions but failed to find the back of the net. Harry Thompson and Neil Grant came on to freshen up the Crows in their attempts to get a goal back and in the 90th minute Sam Carrington was brought down to win a penalty for the hosts. Chris Ransome stepped up but his spot kick was saved by Callum Christie in the Rye goal. This was to prove the final action of the game and scoreline deservedly finished 0-2.

Crowborough Athletic: Head, McEwan, Boddy, Turner, Rich, Saunders (c), Adams (Grant), Taylor (Thompson), Ransome, Carrington, Pearson.
Subs not used: Pryor, Risby.
MOTM: Head