ALEX Browne reckoned things couldn't get much better after he headed the goal that gave Dorchester their first win back in the Dr Martens Premier Division and inflicted Bath City's first defeat of the season yesterday.

Then he got a text message from his brother Simon telling him he had just become an uncle for the first time.

"It's been a great day all round," beamed Browne before dashing off to see sister-in-law Kelly and his new baby niece at Dorset County Hospital, "and what a difference a couple of days can make."

It was a case of villain on Saturday, hero on Monday for the central defender who admitted he was "pig sick" after his mistakes cost his side two goals in their 4-2 defeat at Cambridge City.

"I got some stick from the gaffer and deservedly so," he said. "I had one of those games when everything I touched went wrong and I felt terrible about it. But that happens sometimes and you just have to show a bit of character and get through it.

"I owed him and the team a good performance, today was payback time and scoring the winning goal just topped it all off. Hopefully that's taken us off the bottom of the table and we can start to climb."

Browne said he thought the whole side had responded magnificently to manager Mark Morris' demands for more passion after their lack-lustre show at Cambridge.

"He gave us a roasting about Saturday before the game and we deserved it," he said. "From minute one everybody

wanted the ball and I thought we played some great football. With a little more luck we could easily have had several more goals and if we keep playing like that we will spank someone four-nil sometime, but right now I'll settle for one-nil because it was vitally important we get off the mark.

Fantastic

"They had some pressure late on, but that was always going to be the case and I was delighted for Mark Ormerod who was in much the same position as me after the Havant game where he made a couple of errors.

"At Cambridge on Saturday he was superb and today he again showed what a fantastic keeper he is."

Morris said he told his players he

wanted them to respond in a positive

fashion to Saturday's defeat and that was what they had done.

"Alex showed what big players are all about," he said. "They admit it when things have gone wrong and today he deserves all the plaudits because he has won us the game.

"It was a massive win and if we can go out and do exactly the same against Chelmsford here on Saturday you are

suddenly looking at a much healthier league table," he said.

"Today everyone perfomed and that is what we need to do week in and week out because games are very tight at this level, unlike last season when we could afford to have two or three players not at the races and still get a result."