Kendal Town moved up to third in the Northern League Division One with another vital win.
They beat West Auckland 2-1 at Parkside Road without being at their best.
Indeed if it hadn’t been for goalkeeper Chris Cheetham they would have been out of contention by half-time.
His important stops kept the Mintcakes level although on a couple of occasions he needed the post to come to his aid.
West Auckland did go ahead just before half-time with a penalty from Finley O’Gorman.
Kendal got level on 68 minutes through the game sponsor’s man of the match Jack Milburn.
Then in a dramatic finish the visitors had West Auckland had Oscar Eckley-Aldsworth sent off for a bad tackle after 86 minutes.
In the first minute of time added on Josh Winder grabbed the winner for Kendal.
That made it 12 wins from 15 games under the new management group – and a challenging place in the top three.
Hear chairman Michael O’Neill’s thoughts below:
Meanwhile it was honours even in the Northern League’s Cumbrian derby at Frenchfield.
Penrith and Carlisle City played out a 1-1 draw in extremely difficult conditions.
Both managers felt it was a fair result from a game which provided little in the way of good football – simply because it was virtually impossible because of the strength of the wind.
But both sets of players deserved a lot of credit for sticking at it and getting through to the end.
Connor Shields had given Penrith the lead after 11 minutes and Jordan Irving netted a 58th minute equaliser.
Penrith had a man advantage for the last 20 minutes after City’s Kelvin James was sent off but in a game of very few chances couldn’t find a winner.
Penrith’s Jim Nichols and Carlisle City’s Dan Kirkup give their thoughts below:
