Sawyer put the visitors ahead inside a minute, turning in the box after being found by Dave Cook and firing low to the left of keeper Adam Highsted. Sawyer lashed over from an angle moments later as Hythe piled on the early pressure and sent a
Pulman was denied by the onrushing Highsted and then got in the way of another Schulz shot, but it was soon 3-1 when Tom Loynes beat Malachi Robinson and played the ball across the goal for Smith, who sidefooted home his first Rams goal from 1
The Rams threw a lot at the visitors in the second period but could not find a way past Adam Highsted in the Whitstable goal. And Halsey was delighted with the way his young side performed.