EX-SAINTS and Eastleigh youngster Owen Fee is moving up a step on the non-League ladder.

The teenage midfielder has swapped Sydenhams Wessex League football with Lymington Town for the chance to join Blackfield & Langley’s maiden season in the Evo-Stik Division One South.

Fee penned an academy contract with Saints while still at infant school and went on the play for Pace Pumas in the Tyro League before continuing his education at the Sparsholt College football academy.

From there he signed a scholarship for National League outfit Eastleigh, where he regularly trained with the first-team squad.

Last season he made 49 appearances for Dave Lewis’s Lymington Town side, chipping in with 15 goals.

Lymington, meanwhile, have signed ex-Fawley midfielder Lewis Ross from neighbours Bashley.