CRAIG McAllister scored his second goal of the week in Gosport Borough colours as the ten-man Evo-Stik South Premier basement boys battled out a gutsy 3-3 draw with Dorchester Town at Privett Park.
With Borough trailing to an 18th-minute Archie Collins free-kick, ex-Eastleigh man McAllister followed up for 1-1 after Zak Sharp had hit the post.
Gosport were dealt a blow on the half-hour when Harry Medway was shown red for appearing to have held back Neil Martin.
Ed Bastick soon punished them but, on the brink of half-time, Stephane Bombelenga netted a 40-yarder to level things up again.
Despite their one-man handicap, Borough took the lead with five minutes remaining when Jason Smith nipped into a busy six-yard box to back-heel home from a corner.
But, with an unexpected victory on the cards, Gosport had it snatched away from them when Gary Bowles poked in a late Magpies’ equaliser.
With one team to go down, Gosport remain clamped to the bottom, four points behind Dunstable Town.
But manager Alex Pike sees positive signs and pledged: "We will keep this club up and then next season we will challenge at the right end of the table."
Elsewhere in the division, Sam Argent – a former Saints trainee – netted his second five-goal haul of the season in Basingstoke Town’s 6-2 defeat of Tiverton.
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