Maidstone United 3 Boreham Wood 2

FOR the second time in as many games on-loan Gillingham striker Luis Cumbers scored a winning goal for Maidstone United on Wednesday night.

Cumbers struck in the 76th minute of the Stones’ 3-2 win over Boreham Wood, a result that lifted United out of the bottom four in the Ryman League Premier Division.

Boreham Wood took the lead with their first attack in the 27th-minute, when the unmarked Byron Harrison volleyed past Pat Mullin.

The Stones drew level five minutes later when Lynden Rowland raced onto a superb pass from Andy Martin and slid the ball round Wood keeper Noel Imber.

The visitors looked uninspired but regained the lead 20 minutes after the break, when the Stones defence went to sleep and a corner landed on Ryan Morgan’s head one yard out, bouncing into the net.

Two minutes later it was 2-2, after an equally inept piece of goalkeeping from Imber, who dropped an innocuous cross, allowing Errison Ahwan to prod in the Stones’ second.

A revitalised United took charge and when Martin’s free-kick was headed across goal by Lee Shearer, Cumbers, watched by Gillingham’s joint-manager Iffy Onuora, swept in the winner

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