THE men’s first team were unable to make it a hat-trick of East Premier Division wins for Chelmsford at the weekend.

Following a brace of league victories, the hosts went into the match with Cambridge in high spirits.

But two early goals knocked Chelmsford back before the regained their confidence.

Harry Rayner led the charge and was rewarded when he calmly scored into the bottom right corner from a penalty flick.

Rayner then levelled when he intercepted Dillet Gilkes’ goalbound shot to fire into an open goal.

Chelmsford were now dominating and took the lead through Gilkes to make it 3-2 at half-time.

Cambridge equalised but the hosts still looked the stronger team.

However with 15 minutes left Cambridge scored the winner from a short corner before scoring a fifth on the counter-attack as Chelmsford pushed for an equaliser.