There were varying fortunes for the county's National League representatives, as Basingstoke boosted their chances of clearing away from the bottom end of the log, while Havant slipped to their third defeat and drop to fifth.

The latter's 39-30 reverse at home to North Walsham was certainly no disgrace as they matched the side that that have lost just once in the division score for score throughout before they stretched away.

Havant led 20-19 at the break through Steve Claffey's fourth- minute penalty and his releasing winger Wes Robertson for a try that the fly-half converted.

Dave Archer scored the first of his brace through a charged down kick to keep the hosts in touch.

Two tries early in the second half pushed the Norfolk side away, but Havant clung on through Archer's second and Neil McGovern deep into injury-time, although it was too late to prevent the visitors taking both points.

Basingstoke had their derby with Camberley all but sewn up within the first 20 minutes as they went three tries to the good, but some loose play released the pressure to allow Camberley back into the game at the interval 19-15.

But it never likely to be enough to stop Ian Calder's side from notching their third win from six starts against a side still languishing at the foot with zero points.

Calder himself grabbed 18 points with two tries and four conversions, while Dave Lambert also crossed twice on his home return on the wing. Fraser Jones, Chris Norton and Neal Taylor completed the scoring.

"We played some really good rugby," said Calder. "But we do have to shut out games like this rather than sitting back on an early lead, which we did.

"It was not our best performance but we got the two points of offer," the pleased director of rugby said, praising youngsters Yann Cullum and Matt Evans in the process.

"It is good to get into winning ways - now we must take this into our next match at North Walsham, which will be a very tough one."