Folkestone Invicta finished their first season in the Ryman League Division One South with a second half flourish as goals from James Dryden (2), Micheal Everitt and Jacob Arnold-Smith gave Neil Cugley’s side their biggest home win and only league ‘double’ of the campaign.

All four goals came during the opening 25 minutes of the second half as Invicta gave their supporters something to cheer after a difficult campaign overshadowed by off-the-field problems.

The club’s longest-serving player EVERITT opened the scoring in the 48th minute when he smashed the rebound into the net after visiting goalkeeper Craig Bradshaw had parried a piledriver from defender Liam Dickson in a move started by Jimmy Jackson.

Striker ARNOLD-SMITH made it 2-0 in the 53rd minute when - given on-side to a Dryden through ball – he went round goalkeeper Bradshaw down the right hand side and rolled the ball into the net.

It was the teenage Gillingham youth striker’s fifth goal in just seven starts for Invicta.

The goal blitz continued in the 61st minute when a Jackson free kick from just inside the visitors’ half was headed over the advancing Bradshaw by home captain DRYDEN.

Dryden started all 51 Invicta games in his first season back at the club from Dover Athletic.

And it was the club’s record goalscorer DRYDEN who completed the scoring in the 70th minute when he lobbed the ball over goalkeeper Bradshaw after latching onto a ball from striking partner Arnold-Smith.

Both Patrick Damali and Luke Roodenburg were booked as the visitors appealed in vein for offside.

Dryden finishes the season as Invicta’s top goalscorer with 23 in all competitions and a club record 318 starting appearances and 137 goals.

Invicta had gone into the game with Arnold-Smith back in attack in place of James Everitt, but there was little indication during a somewhat end-of-season first half of the goals to follow.

A deep sixth minute Dryden cross from the right went off the top of the crossbar for a goal kick and Darren Smith poked the ball at goalkeeper Bradshaw four minutes later when Arnold-Smith touched it on.

At the other end, Kristian Webb over-ran the ball when captain Craig Lewington’s 12th minute ball sent him clear down the left hand side of the penalty area.

Invicta centre half Frankie Chappell was then booked for a 30th minute challenge close to the half way line.

The closest the visitors came to a goal was in the 33rd minute when Invicta goalkeeper Jack Delo saved with his feet from Nick White who was given on-side down the right hand side and closed in on goal to win the game’s first corner after a pas from Gavin Bolger.

Walton goalkeeper Bradshaw came out to block when Arnold-Smith attempted to dink the ball past him in the 40th minute and Lewington scrambled the ball off the line following a Jackson corner on the left two minutes later.

And the goals soon followed at the start of the second half.

In a rare second half Walton attack, Delo saved from White when substitute Chris Chevalier played the ball into the box in the 69th minute.

At 4-0 up, Invicta gave a first senior outing to defender Sam Henson.

And the home side threatened again in the 82nd minute when Bradshaw touched a Smith cross-shot over the crossbar when Dryden played the ball out wide to substitute James Everitt on the right.

Bradshaw then caught but dropped a deep Smith corner on the right onto the far post in the 88th minute.

FOLKESTONE INVICTA: Delo, Vincent (J. Everitt 63 mins), Burchell, Friend, Chappell (Henson 79 mins), Dickson, Smith, M. Everitt, Dryden, Arnold-Smith, Jackson (Driscoll 84 mins). Unused sub: Swallow, Dix.

WALTON CASUALS: Bradshaw, Damali, Crayford, Lewington (Worthngton 58 mins), Duku, Burton (Chevalier 58 mins), Bolger, White, Webb, Roodenburg, Gale (Barima 63 mins).

Attendance: 294.