Oxford United now possess a seven-point lead at the top of the Blue Square Premier table on Saturday, but they needed a late Simon Clist equaliser as they claimed a single point at the KitKat Crescent against York City.
York looked like they might hand Oxford only a second defeat of the season when Michael Rankine got on the end of a cross to fire home from close range with 20 minutes remaining.
But Clist levelled 11 minutes later, finding himself in space at the far post to turn in Damian Batt's cross.
York were reduced to ten-men for the last 10 minutes when James Meredith was sent-off for a second bookable offence.
Second-placed Stevenage Borough closed the gap on Oxford after beating mid-table Salisbury City at Broadhall Way.
Boro's Mark Roberts headed the home side in front just before half time to cap an impressive opening 45 minutes.
City substitute Chris Flood struck 7 minutes after the break to equalise, before Boro's Charlie Griffin converted Andy Drury's corner around the hour-mark.
Chris Beardsley then confirmed the result 9 minutes from time, scoring from close range.
Kettering Town claimed one of their best wins of the season so far at Kingsmeadow against AFC Wimbledon.
In front of a crowd of 3,745, goals from Greg Taylor after 17 minutes and Danny Thomas 2 minutes later proved to be enough after Jon Main had replied soon after the Poppies had gone 2-0 up.
Two goals in the opening 12 minutes secured Mansfield Town a third straight win - and condemned Eastbourne Borough to a fourth successive defeat.
Gary Mills set up Kyle Perry to put the Stags in front from close range after just 5 minutes.
Rob Duffy then doubled their advantage 6 minutes later with his ninth of the season.
Substitute Liam Enver-Marum pulled one back on 67 minutes with a speculative effort that looped over visiting keeper Alan Marriott, but the Stags held on.
A Tom Craddock penalty fired in-form Luton Town to their third win in three league games.
But the Hatters were equally indebted to keeper Mark Tyler, who saved a spot-kick from Altrincham's Colin Little around the hour-mark after Aaron Burns was upended.
Moments later a Luton attack resulted in substitute Ryan Charles being brought down in the area by Nicky Clee and Craddock stepped up to convert.
The best chance in open play saw Little's low drive saved by Tyler.
Gavin Caines' last-gasp strike clinched victory for Kidderminster Harriers over Crawley Town at Aggborough.
A third win in four matches for Mark Yates's men has seen them rise to within four points of the play-off pack.
After Matthew Barnes-Homer went close, Caines snatched victory in the 89th minute when he latched onto David McDermott's neat pass. And that stretched Crawley's bad run to just one point from a possible twelve.
Lee Tomlin turned in a virtuoso display as Rushden & Diamonds returned to winning ways at home to Tamworth.
Tomlin scored two and made another as Diamonds took a deserved three points.
Diamonds made an electric start as Tomlin put them ahead inside 3 minutes with a superb individual goal which saw him cut in from the left and beat three defenders before finding the bottom corner, albeit with a deflection. However, the lead lasted only 4 minutes before a poor clearance from Diamonds` keeper Nathan Abbey went straight to Simon Russell and after both he and Jake Sheridan had seen efforts blocked, Nick Wright eventually tapped home the equaliser from close in.
Ten minutes later, Diamonds were back in front and again it was Tomlin and again there was a stroke of luck to the goal as his in-swinging cross went in off the far post with Tamworth keeper Richard Alcock rooted to the spot.
The third goal eventually came on 77 minutes and again Tomlin was at the heart of it, skipping past Des Lyttle and crossing low for another substitute, Aaron O'Connor, to score.
That looked to be it but Diamond's sleepy defence was caught napping again in injury-time as Wright was given space to hit the bar and Tait followed up to score.
Out of nothing, Diamonds suddenly found themselves facing a wholly avoidable frantic finale. But in the end, they held on for a welcome win.
The upset of the day came from Church Road as lowly Hayes & Yeading United comprehensively beat Cambridge United 3-0.
A Scott Fitzgerald brace in the 23rd and 47th minutes along with Tom Cadmore's effort on 62, earned the home side a priceless victory that lifts them out of the relegation zone.
There was a high-scoring affair at the Glassworld Stadium as Histon romped home 5-2 against Forest Green Rovers.
Rovers took a surprise 9th minute lead through Jonathan Smith but by the 75th minute they found themselves reeling at 4-1 down after Nathaniel Knight-Percival, Jamie Barker, Josh Simpson and Daniel Wright were on the mark.
Despite netting a consolation David Brown penalty in the 89th minute Rovers were further embarrassed when Wright netted his second and the host's fifth to seal the win.
Goals from Jon Shaw and Andy Cook saw Barrow continue their fine run of form at Holker Street against struggling Ebbsfleet United.
The visitors were reduced to ten-men in the 38th minute when Gavon Heeroo was shown a second yellow card for a foul from behind on Neil Wainwright.
This though made them hard to break down and it wasnt until 15 minutes from time that Jon Shaw capitalised on hesitation between defender and keeper to nip in and drive into the far corner.
Shaw turned provider 10 minutes later allowing debutant substitute, Andy Cook to toe poke past Lance Cronin.
Wrexham manager Dean Saunders saw his side return to winning ways against fellow strugglers Grays Athletic at the Racecourse Ground.
Striker Christian Smith opened the scoring after 5 minutes and Grays' Jamie Slabber replied 8 minutes later.
Gareth Taylor's header after 38 minutes ended the scoring to give the hosts their fifth league win.
Chester City`s on-loan striker Mark Beesley scored his first goal since his return to the club to earn the bottom club their first away win.
The Cambridge United front man latched onto Kevin Roberts' cross to hit a close-range winner 11 minutes into the second half. And, although City old boy Daryl Clare came close to a Gateshead equaliser on his loan debut, the visitors hung on.
It was a first win for Chester boss Jim Harvey since taking over on 6th October. But, having drawn their previous six games on the road, City have still not lost away from home since their first outing of the season at leaders Oxford.
