Rooks boss Steve King made three changes from the side which had bowed out of the FA Cup at Mansfield little more than 48 hours previously.  Leon Legge started as the third centre half, with Jay Conroy and Dale Binns deployed as wing backs either side of a three man central midfield of Holloway, Drury and Wormull.  Matt Groves partmered Paul Booth up front.

The first half was fiercely contested, with little by way of goamouth action other than Groves missing a good early chance, but the deadlock was broken on 32 minutes, when Rocky Baptiste fired the home side ahead from the penalty spot.

However after the break the Rooks stunned the home side with three goals in a seven minute spell.  On 48 minutes Ian Simpemba's looping header made it 1-1, and four minutes later when home 'keeper Kevin Scriven was penalised for handling a back pass, Legge powered home a second from Wormull's free kick.

The best was yet to come on 55 minutes, when a brilliant counter attack ended with Wormull lashing the ball past Scriven from the edge of the area to make it 3-1.  The hosts pulled a goal back on 63 minutes through Andy Gurney, but they rarely threatened to send the tie into extra time, and indeed Booth, Conroy and substutute to Davis all had chances ot make the margin of victory more comfortable.

Lewes : Williams, Conroy, Binns, Legge, Simpemba, Robinson, Drury, Wormull (Davis 76), Holloway, Booth (Cade 90), Groves.