BROMSGROVE Sporting sit just one point above the relegation zone after the club suffered successive defeats over the Easter weekend.
Sporting lost 1-0 away at Needham Market at Bloomfields on Good Friday and then slipped to a 2-0 home defeat against Halesowen Town at the Victoria Ground on Easter Monday.
The results leave the Rouslers one point and one place above the Southern League Premier Central relegation zone with just three matches left to play.
Sporting suffered a narrow defeat against top-five hopefuls Needham at Marcel Lewis’s early free-kick condemned the Rouslers to defeat.
Lewis curled a free-kick past Rory Brown on 14 minutes from 25-yards out as the ball struck the underside of the crossbar and bounced into the roof of the net.
Sporting responded with a chance of their own as Jack Kelly saw his header saved before Charlie Trustram saw a penalty claim turned down by the referee.
Needham almost scored a second goal just before the half-hour mark as Joe Neal hit the side netting and saw another effort saved by Brown from close range.
Chances remained at a premium after the break with Sporting unable to carve out a clear-cut opening in the second period.
And Sporting then lost at home against play-off contenders Halesowen as early goals from Jordan Ponticelli and former Rouslers favourite Jason Cowley inflicted defeat on Tim Flowers’ side.
The Yeltz took the lead on 13 minutes when Ponticelli finished from close range after Brown could only parry Cowley’s curling effort from the left edge of the penalty area.
And the visitors doubled their lead two minutes later as Sporting’s all-time top goalscorer Cowley curled an unstoppable shot into the top-left corner from 12-yards out.
Sporting improved after the break as Halesowen goalkeeper Dan Platt tipped Luke Benbow’s effort from distance onto the crossbar and behind for a corner.
Platt made another save at full stretch to deny Kyle Belmonte while Shay Willock headed against the post with Sporting unable to find a way through.
