MALDON & Tiptree showed their serious promotion credentials with a thoroughly professional performance against the Norfolk side at the Wallace Binder Stadium on Saturday.
Clear at the top of the league manager Terry Spillane knows that there's a long way to go and many games to play adding: "This was a good all round performance and we need to keep the momentum going, but nobody is getting carried away."
Again the vastly experienced goal poacher Jamie Guy proved to be of the main reason why his side are leading the table with the ex-Colchester United striker nabbing two goals in the 65th and 88th minute with clinical finishing.
Maldon dominated the game from start to finish and the only surprise was that it took them until the 22nd minute to score a goal.
It came from Billy Sendall who drilled the ball low and hard into the visitors' net after the defence had failed to clear the ball from a corner.
The visitors responded strongly with Matt Blake finding space deep down the left but his first shot was stopped by Paul Golby and his second by keeper Joe Wright.
Ollie Berquez almost added a second goal from a Chris Bryan free-kick but the visiting keeper managed to save it.
James Robinson went clear on goal but he shot wide before Berquez did well down the left to put Robinson in on goal again, but this time his shot was well saved by the keeper.
The game was effectively over as a contest six minutes into the second half when Robinson drove the ball low across the goal and into the corner of the net.
On 65 minutes the home side moved further ahead with a fine individual goal from the prolific Guy.
He headed down a clearance when just inside the visitors' half before running strongly past two defenders and rounding the keeper to finish into an open net.
Guy was almost on target again when Robinson and Jake Gardner combined to give him a shooting chance from the edge of the area, but his shot flashed just wide of the post.
The home side scored their expected fourth goal after 88 minutes when Vinnie Durrant put Dave Wareham clear down the left wing and his pin point cross just invited someone to put it into the net and who better than Guy to do the honours when he got up well to bury his header past the helpless visiting keeper.
This Saturday Maldon & Tiptree go to Tilbury for another league game.