Axminster Town are still looking for their first win of 2022 after losing a fourth game on the trot.
In a game that they would have expected to win, the Tigers travelled to Crediton and were beaten 4-2 having conceded three goals in five minutes in a poor second half display.
As a result, Axminster have dropped to eighth place in the South West Peninsular Premier East Division. But they have games in hand on the sides immediately above them and if they can rediscover their early season form a place in the top six is still well within their capabilities.
Axe more than held their own in the first half but manager Dan Prettejohn was less than impressed with their second half going 3-0 up soon after the re-start in a calamitous five-minute spell.
The Tigers fought back with goals from Day Scadden and Charlie Wilson but then considered. a fourth before the final whistle.
On Saturday the Tigers will be looking for their first win of the new year with a home match against Holesworthy, another side several replaces below in the table (kick-off 3 pm).
Axminster Reserves booked a place in the quarter finals of the East Devon Senior Cup with at home to Newtown.
The game finished 3-3 after extra time but the Tigers' second string clinched the tie on penalties.Man-of-the-match was goalkeeperJock Trevisick.
On Saturday, the Reserves travel over the Dorset border in a local derby with Lyme Regis, two sides which have not achieved their expectations this season, both being in the bottom half of the Devon and Exeter Premier division.
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