Crisis club Welling were denied a morale-boosting opening day win by visiting Hampton keeper Matt Lovett.

The Wings, who revealed earlier in the week that they are the subject of a winding up petition by HMRC, failed to find a way past Lovett, who single-handedly kept his side in the Blue Square Bet South game.

Lovett's first stop came as early as the sixth minute when he denied Luis Cumbers after neat build-up by play by the impressive Andy Pugh.

Pugh's shot was deflected wide before Lovett produced an excellent save to turn behind Jack Parkinson's header from player/manager Jamie Day's free-kick.

The visitors, who kept men behind the ball throughout, were lucky not to be reduced to 10 men on the stroke of half-time when Luton referee P Forrester showed David Tarpey a yellow card for a late and high challenge on Graeme Andrews that could have easily been greeted with a red card.

Within a minute of the restart, Loui Fazackerley was denied by Lovett at the near post after more good work from Pugh, who then stabbed the ball wide from the resulting corner.

Jamie Coyle was next to be thwarted, his close-range header from Jack Obersteller's corner instinctively kept out by Lovett.

Welling, who lost Dean Cracknell to injury at half-time, lost their way in the last half-hour but it took Hampton until stoppage time to force keeper Charlie Mitten into serious action, when he saved substitute Charles Moore's shot after a lapse by Parkinson.

Bromley started the new campaign with a 2-1 victory over Dorchester.

The home side made a sluggish start and Ryan Hill curled in a free-kick to give the visitors the lead after six minutes.

Bromley hit a fortuitous equaliser on 34 minutes when a Wes Daly's shot deflected off Paul Vines and went past wrong-footed Dorchester keeper Regan Coward into the net.

Nic McDonnell missed a penalty for Bromley before the break, but the home side took the lead when Tony Finn's cross found Warren McBean and he headed the ball in on 72 minutes.

Jerome Sobers conceded a penalty and was sent off but Hill's penalty was saved by Jamie Butler.