The Terras were not at their best, quite understandable given the recent turmoil the club finds itself in, but a 3-0 loss was particularly harsh.

A mistake from Santos Gaia just before half-time led to Borough’s opening goal before two counter-attacking moves late on secured all three points for the promotion-chasers.

Terras’ boss Alan Lewer, who announced that he will step down after this Saturday’s game with Rushden & Diamonds, was able to name an unchanged side from that which recorded a fantastic 2-0 victory at Torquay United in midweek.

After a fairly pedestrian opening in which neither side created anything of note it took 21 minutes for an attempt at either goal – the visitors though, fired wide of the far post.

Weymouth’s first shot came via James Coutts, however, his volley from 30 yards cleared the stands.

Steve Morison, the league’s top scorer, was then guilty of wasting the best chance of the half on 26 minutes when he blazed over from just 10 yards out with only home keeper Danny Knowles to beat.

The Terras were pressing their opponents well, forcing the third-placed outfit into numerous misplaced passes.

And the hosts would have forged ahead in the 36th minute had it not been for the woodwork. Coutts’ free-kick was cleared only as far as Kevin Sandwith who nodded the ball back into the danger zone where Scott Doe hooked an effort goalwards. Borough keeper Chris Day could only watch as the ball rebounded off his crossbar.

The Terras appeared to be in the ascendancy and with five minutes to go before half-time Ryan Williams picked out Lee Phillips who found himself with a sight of the Stevenage goal.

Visiting defender Scott Laird raced back to make the challenge and the ball bobbled through to a relieved Day.

But for all their endeavour, Weymouth were dealt a sucker punch as Stevenage took the lead.

Day pumped the ball up field and it looked an easy one for Santos Gaia to deal with, but the Brazilian completely missed it and Lee Boylan was left with a clean run at the home goal.

Santos Gaia’s blushes looked to have been spared by a tremendous tackle from Doe. However, in cruel fashion the loose ball fell kindly for Andy Drury who lashed home.

The Terras would have felt hard done by at the half-time break and they came out for the second period clearly intent on redressing the balance.

But it was the visitors who created the early openings of the half, Darren Murphy firing off target before Drury pulled a weak effort wide of goal from 18 yards.

Weymouth hit back and a delightful long pass from Sandwith was expertly brought down by Phillips in the box, but the former Rushden man unselfishly tried to lay it back and the opportunity died out.

Mitchell Cole stretched his legs and carried the ball a long way before forcing a parry from Knowles.

The home side had strong appeals for a penalty waved away midway through the half by referee Brendan Malone after Santos Gaia received a heavy nudge in the back.

Weymouth were moving up the gears at this point and twice went agonisingly close to finding an equaliser.

First, a scramble in the box ended with Beavon heading goalwards from a matter of eight yards but the lethal front man was denied by a superb right-handed save from Day.

Then, from the resultant corner delivered by Coutts, the ball ricocheted off the foot of McPhee and was headed for the bottom corner but a crucial clearance on the line from Laird maintained the visitors’ advantage.

Morison wasted a glorious opportunity to make it 2-0, finding the legs of Knowles as opposed to the back of the net.

Stevenage continued to look dangerous on the counter and after having shouts for a penalty turned down, they made the game safe with two goals in the final four minutes.

Drury turned provider for Morison to grab his 20th league goal of the campaign before Michael Bostwick beat Doe to the bouncing ball and fired beyond Knowles.