Romsey looked to gain revenge for a 3-1 away defeat 3 months ago, when they cub ended twice in the final minutes in the home fixture at Ganger Farm.
Romsey started brightly and Tom W combined with debutant Shaun Coote to play in Jamie Bundy down the right early on which set a positive pattern of play.
Bundy found himself able to shoot, but his effort went narrowly wide.
Martin S-S then combined with Richard Austin to allow Bundy another chance but it was cleared away.
With the home side on top captain Colin Harwood found himself in the circle and his shot was smothered by the keeper but as the keeper looked to clear the ball it ran away from him and in to the goal and over the line by the post it give Romsey a 1-0 lead.
New Forest pushed forward try and recover but Rob Cav, Simeon Field and Freddie OH all got to opposition passes first to clear any danger.
Then Romsey created the move of the match with Pete OH playing the ball to Tom W, he passed to Chris Harwood down the left and gave the ball to Simpson-Scott to scream a pass to Harwood at the top of the circle, rather than stop and shoot, Harwood deftly passed the ball first time to Man of The Match Jamie Bundy on the right of the circle who controlled the ball and smashed it inside the far boast to double Romsey’s lead, which is at remained at Half time.
The second half saw New Forest up their game and a deflection from Pete OH saw a Forest chance bounce back off the post.
This saw Forest galvanise further and they equalised from a penalty corner which was almost blocked by Field but was returned in from the right for the Forest captain to pull one back.
Romsey needed their Keeper Nigel King to take control of the defence now and he did a king like job to keep Forest out with some fine saves, one which saw the ball loop up over and then cleared off the line by Pete OH.
Forest put the ball in the goal, after a penalty corner had been awarded and Romsey cleared the corner and then used the outlets of Bundy and Sean Rawles to relieve pressure and see the game out for a 2-1 win and 3 points.
