Folkestone Invicta went out of the F. A. Carlsberg Trophy as they were beaten 3-1 at home to Blue Square South club Staines Town on Saturday afternoon.

The Swans took control with two goals in a five-minute spell just after they had missed a first half penalty in front of a season’s best so far 342 crowd at the Buzzlines Stadium.

Staines were awarded their penalty when Invicta centre half Frankie Chappell caught Richard Butler before the ball as it came down inside the penalty area.

But home goalkeeper Jack Delo made an excellent save to palm away Adam Everitt’s 33rd minute spot kick.

It was not though to prove to be a turning point in the home side’s favour as Staines opened the scoring just a minute later when Gareth RISBRIDGERE hooked the ball in at the far post when Marc Charles-Smith looped it across from the left hand side.

And centre half Jake GOODMAN soon made it 2-0 in the 37th minute when he headed in from the visitors’ first corner of the game taken by Scott Taylor from the left hand side.

CHARLES-SMITH made it 3-0 when he went round Delo and put the ball into the net for a well-taken 64th minute goal after a dummy from Mark Nwokeji when Howard Newton played the ball through.

CHAPPELL pulled a goal back in the 83rd minute when he headed in a Josh Burchell cross from the left hand side over substitute goalkeeper Kyle Merson.

Invicta went into the game with Liam Dickson at left back in a 4-4-2 formation in place of Simon Austin.

Taylor tried his luck with a couple of strikes from just outside the penalty area in the opening two minutes.

But chances were few and far between in the opening half an hour as Delo came off his line to deny Adam Thompson in a move also involving Risbridger and Butler.

Staines then went 2-0 up after Delo’s penalty save, with Butler then just unable to get on the end of a 39th minute Thompson ball into the penalty area after a Taylor pass.

Invicta player-coach Roland Edge was booked for a 44th minute foul on the left hand edge of the penalty area and striker Nwokeji blasted over following the subsequent free kick.

The home side tried to get back into the game at the start of the second half as striker Richard Atkins volleyed over in the 55th minute after a move involving Burchell and James Everitt down the right hand side.

Staines captain Danny Gordon was then booked for a 58th minute foul on Everitt and the Invicta striker headed over after Darren Smith’s free kick from the left.

Invicta brought Ryan Moreby on for Dickson, with Burchell reverting to left back.

But Charles-Smith soon increased Staines’ lead to put the result beyond any reasonable doubt.

Invicta rallied as Atkins shot over on the turn in the 75th minute when captain Micheal Everitt played the ball in to substitute Austin.

Staines goalkeeper Dominique Jean-Zephirin had already been down with a groin injury once before limping off in the 81st minute to be replaced by 17-year-old debutant Merson

The rookie goalkeeper was beaten once by Chappell’s looping header and the Invicta goalscorer then finished the game as an emergency striker.

This was Staines’ first victory in the F. A. Trophy since 2005, a barren run that included a 1-0 home defeat by Invicta in 2006 when Adam Flanagan was the goalscorer.

The defeat was only Invicta’s second at the Buzzlines Stadium so far this season, both losses coming in the two F. A. competitions.

The 3-1 scoreline was also a repeat of Staines’ last visit to Folkestone in April 2008 that had been in dramatic circumstances as the Folkestone side led 1-0 going into the 90th minute in a match that went a long way to their relegation of the last day of that season.

FOLKESTONE INVICTA: Delo, Vincent, Burchell, Friend, Chappell, Edge, Smith (Austin 72 mins), Atkins, J. Everitt, Dickson (Moreby 61 mins), M. Everitt. Unused subs: King, Mortimer, Hayward.

STAINES TOWN: Jean-Zephirin (Merson 80 mins), Thompson, Everitt, Gordon, Goodman, Butler, Newton (Harris 78 mins), Risbridger, Taylor, Nwokeji, Charles-Smith. Unused subs: Boyle, Tyrrell, Ogun.

Attendance: 342.