FROME Town eventually triumphed 2-1 thanks to goals from Sam Teale and George Miller, though they were indebted to goalkeeper Kyle Phillips who pulled off several stupendous saves to ensure they picked up their first home league points of the season. 

With five wins in a row, the home side showed just the one change as Kris Miller was suspended, allowing Teale to come back into the side at left back.

Following a minute’s applause at the start of the match for former player and lifetime supporter Brian Wilkinson, the match kicked off at a lively pace and Frome could easily have found themselves a goal down in the second minute as two shots from close range were only just dealt with. 

The visitors had the ball in the net in the fourth minute as Afolabi Akinyemi finished off a move sweetly, but the linesman’s flag saved Josh Jeffries' troops.

As the match evened itself out, Frome took the lead in the 16th minute as, following a free-kick that had gone close, Jon Davies produced a gem of a chip over the defence to allow Teale to control and hit a low right foot shot into the corner of the net.

However, the lead only lasted a minute the visitors immediately went on the offensive and Foxley latched onto a right wing cross to go past his marker and shoot low into the net to make the score 1-1.

The match then slowed down a little, with both sides looking to make the best of their options, Mitchell Page was causing defenders all sorts of problems and Jake Jackson relished the space that he was finding.

Frome failed to find the net again before half time and with Bishop’s Stortford wasting a good opportunity just before half time as Akinyemi hit a free kick tamely into the body of Phillips.

Phillips had to be alert to keep the score level straight from the kick off, but Jackson was only denied by the legs of McCarthy in the 52nd minute as he turned well and hit a low shot and with Darren Jefferies having his follow up shot deflected for a corner.  

However, against the run of play, Frome failed to clear their lines in the 63rd minute and Phillips brought off two unbelievable reaction saves in quick succession, with the second one in particular almost defying belief as he managed to get a hand to the ball and push it up and over the bar.

Jackson thought he had given Frome the lead in the 66th minute as his glanced header from a corner was heading inside the far post until the head of Aaron Tumwa denied him, and with Jefferies going close again a minute later as Mapstone and Teale caused panic in the visitors defence, Frome were looking good.

The winner finally arrived in the 70th minute as a Davies right-wing cross just evaded the head of Page but Miller was on hand to slide in at the far post and poke the ball home with the aid of a slight deflection from George Casey.

Teale almost scored again three minutes later as he cut in from the left to play a neat 1-2 with Page, but his curling shot just failed to come back in enough, and with Page being substitute in the 77th minute to a warm ovation, Frome started to drop back and protect their lead a bit more.

Bishop's Stortford always looked likely to get the equaliser with their pacey forwards, and it took another good reaction save from Phillips in the 89th as Jason Williams found time and space to shoot, before they managed to run the clock down and finally secure their first home points of the season.