Rooks boss Steve King was able to name the same starting eleven which had torn Bishops Stortford in midweek, with the only change being Derek Duncan's inclusion on the bench in place of the injured Simon Wormull.

The opening exchanges were fast and furious, with the visitors lucky not to be reduced to ten men with only five minutes gone when Paul Keddle reacted angrily to a tackle by Andy Drury after the referee had blown for a Bath free kick.  The tackle was a legitimate one and thus it was somewhat puzzling that the Lewes winger picked himself up having been shoved to the ground to receive the same punishment as Keddle, who might well have had a red card on another day but escaped with a yellow.

Five minutes later came the decisive moment of a wet and windy afternoon, when Matt Groves hooked a Drury cross from the left back across the face of goal, and Booth pounced to give his side a lead wihich they never looked like surrendering.  The in-form striker should have had a another shortly afterwards, but his control let him down as he raced onto a Drury through ball.

Jay Conroy was then inches away from his first Lewes goal with a long range effort which crashed against the bar, and with the visitors offering little threat at the other end,  a blatant foul on Groves in the area which went unpunished was the narest that either side came to a goal before the interval.

After the break Booth was denied his second of the afternoon by a last ditch defensive interception after more good work by the tireless Groves, and as the rain lashed down and the wind grew ever stronger, the Bath foul count continued to rise, with the inevitable sending-off occurring twenty minutes from time when Justin McKay picked up his second yellow card.  Drury was denied what would have been a spectacular goal by an an equally brilliant save by Bath 'keeper Paul Evans, but with the Rooks defence looking as solid as ever, the result was never in doubt.

Lewes: Williams, Conroy, Barness, Robinson, Legge, Drury, Holloway, Davis, Binns, Groves (Cade 86), Booth (Simpemba 90).