Steyning Town kept up the pressure on Southern Combination Premier Division leaders Haywards Heath Town after coming from behind to beat Horsham YM.

Both sides are the closest challengers to a Heath side who had won all 17 of their league games so far this season and neither side could afford to drop points on Saturday afternoon.

The opening chances all fell the way of the Barrowmen with YM unable to break out of their own half nor keep possession, those chances not making the breakthrough, but when the goal did come it wasn’t the way of the home side.

The visitors took the lead on 38 minutes, the recently dual signed Sam King finished off a flowing move down the pitch much against the run of play.

From that point YM frustrated their opponents and were able to play their own game, the home side finding it hard to get themselves into areas to create chances going in a goal behind at the break.

The second half saw Steyning up the tempo but Horsham held firm, however the game hinged on a contentious second yellow card for handball for Leon Fisher and the visitors were down to ten men with most of the second half to play.

The home side set about making the extra man advantage count and with YM dropping ever deeper to defend they finally made the breakthrough on 64 minutes as a cross from the left was headed home by the unmarked Joe Benn at the far post.

Steyning kept pushing the visitors back despite time running out but got their reward for the constant pressure when with two minutes remaining they seemingly snatched a winner.

A ball in from the right hand side having worked an overload saw a delightful deft finish from skipper Dion Jarvis over the top of debutant keeper Zack Basey for the lead.

The icing was put on the cake in stoppage time as Jarvis cut in from the right hand side, dropped his shoulder, dribbled around three challenges and fired home to give Town a 12th successive win.

With Heath losing for the first time in the league in their reversed fixture against Roffey, the Barrowmen join them on 51 points at the top of the league although Heath do have two games in hand whilst the sides meet at the Peter Humphreys Stadium on Saturday 27th December.