A crowd of 1,750 saw Carlisle United score two late goals to beat Annan Athletic 2-1 at Galabank.
They had conceded an early goal and although creating opportunities couldn’t find a way through the Annan defence until the 83rd and 90th minutes.
Sam Lavelle, whose signing had been announced earlier in the day, was in the United starting line-up.
Paul Simpson used a completely different set of players in the second-half, including two trialists – one of them a goalkeeper.
The only goal of the first-half had come as early as the ninth minute when a Carlisle attack broke down and Annan broke quickly with Josh Galloway finishing clinically past Tomas Holy.
Galloway, whose father Mick played 35 times for Carlisle, had also started at Brunton Park before spending two years with Leeds United, joining Annan ahead of last season.
Experienced home keeper Greg Fleming, who played four times for Carlisle in the 2013/14 season, kept Annan ahead with a couple of fine stops to deny Alfie McCalmont and Ben Barclay.
He also did well to get behind a fierce header from Ryan Edmondson when he got on the end of a corner.
Carlisle continued to have the better of things but finding an end product was proving elusive.
When Annan did make inroads a dangerous cross from one of their trialists was palmed away by the trialist who had taken over in goal from Holy.
Carlisle should have been level on 78 minutes but Edmondson, with the goal gaping, could only lift a header onto the roof of the net.
The goal that United had been threatening came on 83 minutes when a deep cross from Barclay was headed down by Edmondson and Jack Armer made no mistake from close range.
Then in the 90th minute Carlisle won it. Good play between Jayden Harris and Kai Nugent set up a second-half trialist to knock in the deciding goal.
