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.