Selsey kept themselves out of the relegation zone in County League division one despite missing two penalties in a 3-1 win at Hailsham Town.
Failure to win would have left Selsey in the bottom three after Peacehaven beat Arundel 2-1.
However, there was never any doubt about the result and manager Danny Hinshelwood is not even thinking about relegation.
Hinshelwood said: "If it wasn't for their keeper we would have won by six or seven. We have played better this season but the points are more important than playing well at the moment and hopefully we can go on a run now.
"We have 16 games left. If we can get 12 wins we would push ourselves up to fourth or fifth."
There were three penalties awarded to Selsey, all for fouls on Clinton More. Paul Lee scored the first then hit a post with the second while Jason Reed took the third only to be denied by a save from Matt Brown.
Lee ended up with two goals and More got the other while Mark French replied for Hailsham, who had Steve Monk sent off for bringing down More for the third penalty.
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