Folkestone Invicta’s 100% record came to an end as they were beaten by two late goals scored by Walton & Hersham substitute Zak Graham after the home side had led by a James Dryden goal going into the final 15 minutes.

Both clubs had won their opening two Ryman League Division One South fixtures of the season, but it was the Swans who emerged with three more maximum points at the Buzzlines Stadium.

It had all been looking so good for Invicta as the club’s record goalscorer Dryden scored his first competitive goal since rejoining the club from Dover Athletic during the summer.

DRYDEN (right) opened the scoring by heading home at the second attempt in the 49th minute after goalkeeper Antony Hall had touched his initial header onto the crossbar after a Liam Friend cross.

But the visitors will feel that they enjoyed enough of the game to justify taking something from it and GRAHAM equalised in the 77th minute when his shot on the turn went in off the post after a cross from the right hand side.

And it was GRAHAM who struck again to grab the winner in the 80th minute with a looping header which rounded off a well-worked exchange of passes from the visitors.

There was to be no way back for Invicta and defender Nick Humphrey had to make a saving tackle during stoppage time to prevent Graham from closing in on a hat-trick.

Invicta had kept faith with the same starting line up which had excited home supporters in midweek against Chipstead, but they could have fallen behind early on when Jack Watkins shot over from close range in the seventh minute.

At the other end, a James Corbett header was touched round the post for the game’s first corner by goalkeeper Hall after Lee Gledhill’s 11th minute cross from the right.

Home goalkeeper Charlie Mitten saved a 28th minute Matt Elverson shot from the left hand side of the penalty area after Adam Moriarty’s corner on the right and Jordan Cheadle tried his luck from 30 yards six minutes later.

Invicta’s Jimmy Jackson’s (below) stoppage time free kick was deflected onto the crossbar via a defender’s heel at the end of the first half.

But the home side did not have to wait long to go ahead as they scored at the start of the second half just as they had done against Chipstead.

The visitors made an immediate response and Corbett had to get back and tackle at the expense of a corner when Moriarty played the ball in to Barry Moore.

Invicta defender Friend blocked from Cheadle when Craig Dunne played the in as the visitors chased an equaliser in the 63rd minute and substitute Phil Cramp could not get enough power on his far post header a minute later when Cheadle nodded on a cross from the right.

Mitten had to get down to save Moriarty’s 71st minute shot when an Adrian Stone cross from the left was touched back to the edge of the penalty area.

And substitute Graham then turned the game completely around.

FOLKESTONE INVICTA: Mitten, Gledhill, Green, Friend, Bourne (Walker 81 mins), M. Everitt, Corbett, Pugh, Dryden, Humphrey, Jackson (J. Everitt 72 mins). Unused subs: Dickson, Burchell, Jevons.

WALTON & HERSHAM: Hall, Boswell, Hassell, Dunne, Nowacki, Elverson, Moriarty, Moore, Stone (Graham 71 mins), Watkins (Cramp 58 mins), Cheadle. Unused subs: Booth, Clark, Carter.

Attendance: 277