Rye went back up to second in Division Two of the Sussex County Football League courtesy of a 1-0 win away to relegation threatened Southwick.

Danny Leach scored the all-important goal during the first half, but it needed a goalsaving tackle from Shaun Loft right at the end to make sure of Rye's ninth away league win out of nine.

Despite having four players suspended, Sidley triumphed 2-0 away to Storrington in the same division courtesy of first half goals from Josh Elliott-Noye and Allan McMinigal.

Bexhill consolidated their lead in Division Three on the back of a 4-2 success at Ifield Edwards. Ben White, Phil Rhodes, James Doswell and Dave Carey scored the goals.

Back in Division Two and Little Common suffered a 3-0 defeat away to leaders Loxwood, who got their promotion bid back on track after three successive losses.

And a brave comeback from 3-0 down after half-an-hour couldn't prevent Westfield losing 5-3 at home to Littlehampton Town. Martin Brain, Peter Baker and Matt Dadswell were on target.

Full reports on each of these games will appear in Friday's Observers.

Standings (played-points) - Division 2: 1 Loxwood 24-49, 2 RYE UNITED 20-46, 3 Worthing United 20-45, 4 SIDLEY UNITED 21-44, 5 Wealden 23-40, 6 LITTLE COMMON 21-37, 7 Clymping 22-35, 8 Littlehampton Town 22-35, 9 WESTFIELD 25-33, 10 East Preston 24-31, 11 Storrington 26-31, 12 Seaford Town 18-29, 13 Lancing 24-29, 14 Oakwood 20-27, 15 Rustington 22-26, 16 Southwick 25-16, 17 Steyning Town 23-15, 18 Midhurst & Easebourne 24-8.

Division 3: 1 BEXHILL UNITED 19-41, 2 Uckfield Town 18-37, 3 Bosham 15-36, 4 Haywards Heath Town 18-35, 5 Dorking Wanderers 18-34, 6 Newhaven 18-26, 7 Saltdean United 17-26, 8 TD Shipley 18-24, 9 Ifield Edwards 14-21, 10 Sidlesham 18-21, 11 Broadbridge Heath 19-15, 12 Rottingdean Village 14-13, 13 Hurstpierpoint 16-13, 14 Forest 13-10, 15 Pease Pottage Village 19-10.