Worthing Raiders left it late to secure a 25-20 victory against Southend in National Two South.

Chris Meddings made a perfectly timed run to score in the corner in the last minute and Joe Govett’s best kick of the day from the touchline produced the extra points.

Ben Dudley and Paul Duckley were Raiders’ other try scorer and Govett got the rest of the points with his boot.

Coach Will Green said: “We made it hard for ourselves. We dominted possession and through our own errors we kept them in the game and found ourselves in the tricky position of being down with five minutes to go.

“But I’m delighted with the attitude and guts they showed to come back and get the win.”

In National Three South East, Haywards Heath lost 20-6 at home to Havant but coach Adam Vander took plenty of positives from the defeat.

Rob Jackson kicked Heath’s points with two penalties.

Vander said: “I thought we competed reasonably well and we showed more ambition.

“But due to inexperience we ended up giving away cheap penalties which kept Havant ahead.

“We lost the game as opposed to Havant winning it.”

Chichester made a great start to the London One South campaign and edged past Cobham 10-8 The Surrey team finished third at this level last season but Chichester opened the scoring with a well-worked try when Richard Adams burst through from full back, dinked a kick over the defenders, regathered on the bounce and offloaded to winger Ross Fairbairn to dive over near the corner. Adams converted and also kicked a 40m penalty in the second half.

Cobham scored a loop-around try to add to a penalty but missed the conversion and three penalties. Cobham won most of the possession but Chichester defended well.