Eastbourne Borough secured local bragging rights as they beat Eastbourne Town at Connect Management Stadium.

Sam Sharma and Ollie Kennedy both scored twice as the Sports prevailed 4-2 in the Isthmian Youth South.

The Sports had a chance to go in front within the opening minute when the hosts kept the ball alive and Sam Sharma found the feet of Austin Pugh, but his low effort was saved by Jack Kelvey low to his right.

Borough broke the deadlock after 13 minutes. Lucas Foden found Conor Keeley on the overlap and his low ball across found Sharma at the far post, who applied a neat first-time finish.

The lead was almost doubled moments later when Theo Coleman-Standen had a low effort tipped around the post by Kelvey, and from the resulting corner the hosts went even closer.

Mardy Ovenden floated a corner in and picked out Ollie Kennedy at the near post but his header came back off the bar.

Ollie Gibson then found Pugh on the edge of the box, but the Borough number 10 saw his effort whistle just wide of the top corner.

The Sports went close to adding a third three minutes into the second half when Foden threaded a ball through to Kennedy, but with the angle always narrowing his effort beat Kelvey but was cleared off the line.

However, Eastbourne Town halved the deficit with their first real effort on goal on 51 minutes. Kenny Stubb avoided an offside call as he broke down the right hand side and he teed up Theo Aiguobasimwin who drilled the ball low beyond the reach of Toby Whiteside.

Borough almost regained their two goal advantage when a superb solo run from Pugh ended with him shooting just wide from a tight angle – but instead found themselves back on level terms on 64 minutes.

Kenny Stubb beat Gibson to a ball over the top and one on one with Whiteside slotted into the bottom corner.

But the hosts went back in front just two minutes later. Gibson found the feet of Sharma inside the area on the left, and he picked out the top far corner with a superb curling effort.

And on 70 minutes Borough restored their two-goal lead. A pass back towards goalkeeper Kelvey was intercepted by Kennedy, who reacted sharply to nip in and fire home from a tight angle.

Town almost got back into the game again with ten minutes to go, but a superb save from Whiteside saw him tip Stubb’s drive across goal against the post.

Kennedy almost completed his hat-trick with five minutes to go – running onto Pugh’s ball over the top but lifting it just too high after beating Kelvey.

EBFC: Whiteside; Keeley (Sefaah 57), Grant, Holman, Gibson; Coleman-Standen (Harris 61), Pugh, Ovenden (Vieira 86); Foden (Hill 75), Kennedy, Sharma (Ivakhnik 78).

Subs Not Used: None.