Weymouth 1

Crawley Town 3

A freak own goal and a spectacular Mark Hawthorne strike sealed a superb Crawley Town win at Weymouth.

The Reds turned into the Lillywhites after officials decided Crawley's kit clashed with Weymouth's "terracotta" strip.

Crawley borrowed Weymouth's changed strip and it seemed to help Billy Smith's side, who enjoyed a lion's share of possession.

Dave McEwen had the best of Crawley's few chances, but his flick from Justin Gregory's cross, failed to trouble the home keeper.

Weymouth had to make the most of a strong wind behind them and went ahead on 44 minutes when topscorer David Laws beat the offside trap and smashed home.

The home side looked like adding to their tally before Crawley pulled level after Weymouth struggled to clear their lines.

John Mackie was in the right place to score his second goal of the season.

Then, midway into the second period, Ben Abbey was allowed time to tee up Hawthorne, who scored a cracker off the underside of the crossbar.

Crawley were handed a bizarre third as Weymouth's Darren Powell diverted a backpass past wrongfooted keeper Paul Myers.

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