Kendal Town drew a second successive home game in the North West Counties Premier Division last night.
They were held 0-0 by Longridge Town at Parkside Road, although the game itself was an entertaining contest despite the lack of goals.
Kendal probably shaded the second-half but Longridge’s wide men were always dangerous on the break and overall a draw was probably a fair result.
Longridge had started the game on the front foot and had the better of the early exchanges, going close with a couple of snap shots which weren’t far off target.
Gradually Kendal came into the game and Tom Kilifin had the first real opportunity for them when given a shooting chance in the area following a great ball from Martin Grundy. Somehow the Longridge keeper James Aspinall got onto it to beat away the effort.
Then good work by Shaun Sailor almost saw Kilifin sneak in to score but he just couldn’t reach the cross.
Longridge then had another good spell and home keeper Danny Roccia did well to tiurn away a shot from Jack Arrowsmith at his near post.
In a big finish to the half Sailor headed straight at the keeper from a good position and Steve Yawson curled an effort just wide when he arrived late in the box.
The speedy Arrowsmith was causing Kendal the most problems and he started menacingly in the second half but the game developed into a real end-to-end contest.
Longridge were close to breaking the deadlock when substitute Morgan Homson-Smith hit the post with home keeper Danny Roccia beaten.
Grundy was just over with a shot from distance and right at the end another ball flashed across the Kendal six yard box which only needed a touch to win the game for them.
