SCEFL Groundhop 2024
The 2024 SCEFL Groundhop took place this weekend and once again it was a huge success!
Friday October 4th
Snodland Town 0-3 Rusthall
Saturday October 5th
Meridian VP 1-2 Tooting Bec
Fisher 1-3 Faversham Town
VCD Athletic 2-1 Larkfield & New Hythe
Sunday October 6th
Corinthian 2-1 Erith & Belvedere
Sutton Athletic 2-0 Tunbridge Wells
Rusthall were 3-0 winners on the opening night of the Groundhop with the 3 points earned moving them off the bottom of the table.
There were 395 at Snodland for the game and they saw goals from Kalani Barton, Charlie Clover and Robbie Bissett in an impressive display from the Rustics.
Tooting Bec were the winners in the morning Groundhop kick-off in Charlton with as Bailey McCarthy scored an injury time winner at Meridian VP.
Kleon James had given the visitors an early lead but it was quickly cancelled out by Robinhood Mensah Sowah in front of a record crowd at Meridian. With the game heading for a draw McCarthy popped up with the decider which extends Meridian’s losing league run to 8 games.
Fisher v Faversham Town was the Saturday afternoon offering for the Groundhoppers and a crowd of 423 saw an entertaining game that went the way of the visitors.
It was Fisher that took the lead though, with Courtney Barrington scoring early on but a Tashi-Jay Kwayie double plus Matt Newman effort saw the Lilywhites take the points and keep their unbeaten league run going
On Saturday night the Groundhop headed to Crayford and a date with league leaders VCD Athletic, as they hosted Larkfield & New Hythe.
There were 3 goals and 3 red cards but more importantly 3 points for VCD in a dramatic game.
An Ollie Freeman double helped the Vickers win 2-1 keeping them 7 points clear at the top of the table.
On Sunday morning we headed to Longfield to see Corinthian beat Erith & Belvedere 2-1.
Henry Arnold and Tom Fitzgerald scored early for the hosts, with Dan Parkinson pulling one back for the Deres late on.
We finished the Groundhop in Hextable and for a long time it looked like Sutton Athletic v Tunbridge Wells would finish goalless.
But of course we couldn’t do that to the increased crowd at Lower Road so with late goals from Elias Ahmed and Taylor Fisher, Sutton took the game 2-0.
The official Groundhop account can be followed on X here.