In a week where most sides played on Saturday and then again last night, two wins for Stevenage propelled them back up to first place and saw them regain top-spot from Oxford.

Boro now sit two points ahead of the U's after beating Crawley 2-0 last Saturday and then walloping Barrow 4-0 four days later to notch up five consecutive victories whilst Oxford have only taken a single point from their last two fixtures. The U's were not in action at the weekend but relinquished their title as leaders last night after their surprising 2-1 home defeat to Hayes & Yeading.

Ex-Oxford striker Steve Basham's double was enough to give his side victory despite a consolation strike by Simon Clist.

Frustratingly for us, all four of the play-off placed sides were victorious over the weekend meaning that our 4-2 win over Salisbury served only to ensure that the six point gap between us and fifth place did not get any wider. Rushden beat our opponents on Saturday Tamworth 1-0, Luton won 3-2 at Hayes and Kettering took maximum points at home to Grays courtesy of a 2-0 win.

There was better news yesterday with Kettering, Wimbledon and York all losing whilst using up their games in hand. Wimbledon succumbed to Crawley by two goals to one at the Broadfield Stadium, York were beaten at home by Salisbury 2-1 and Kettering fell to a 1-0 defeat to Cambridge at Rockingham Road.

For York, it was their second defeat of the week after losing to Forest Green on Saturday and they have now fallen to sixth place.

Luton consolidated their play off place and moved up to third following their 2-1 win over Forest Green whilst Crawley's win over Wimbledon puts them level on points with us in ninth place.

At the bottom, Grays remain rooted to the foot of the table whilst Cambridge began the week in the bottom three but hauled themselves back up to 16^th following a 1-0 win at Barrow and then a repeat of the same at Kettering. Barrow made no progress in their bid for survival this week after their defeat to Cambridge and then Stevenage last night whilst Gateshead and Eastbourne did themselves few favours by grinding out goalless draws against Histon and Kidderminster respectively.

Histon capped off a bad four days for Tamworth and added to the misery of losing to Rushden on Saturday by beating them 1-0 at Bridge Road.

In the week's other games, Wimbledon drew with Altrincham 1-1 and Wrexham drew with Ebbsfleet by the same scoreline on Saturday whilst the Dragon's entertained Altrincham last night where they shared the points following their 1-1 draw.