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King's Lynn Town 2 Hartlepool United 2
Tuesday 16th March
LEAGUE TABLES
Tuesday 16th March
Vanarama National
17 Solihull Moors 25 32
18 Woking 26 31
19 Wealdstone 26 29
20 Weymouth 27 24
21 King's Lynn 26 24
22 Barnet 26 13
23 Dover Athletic 15 10


Thurlow Nunn Div One
10  Diss Town 12 15
11  Framlingham Town 11 13
12  Needham Market Res 12 13
13  King's Lynn U21s 11 12
14  Cornard United 12 11
15  Sudbury Reserves 10 11
16  Debenham LC 10 10


No matter what is thrown at Lynn, somehow they manage to regroup and put in a performance for which they can be justifiably proud.
On this occasion it was the loss of Archie Mair, injured in training on Monday, and an injury to Alex Kiwomya that presented the challenge but, unperturbed, Lynn took a deserved point from promotion hopefuls Hartlepool.
Lynn gave a debut to Theo Richardson who arrived that afternoon on a month's loan from Cleethorpes Town while Michael Gyasi was given his first start and there was a place on the bench for 19 year old midfielder Joe Gascoigne, whose last Lynn appearances were in a couple of cup games in the 2018-19 season. Michael Gash also took a place on the bench following injury with Kairo Mitchell replacing Simeon Jackson as the only other change to Saturday's line-up
The visitors posed an early threat with Luke Molyneux twice heading over from crosses and then Nicky Henderson tested Richardson with a curling effort from the edge of the box which he punched clear at the expense of a corner.
Richardson set up the opening goal, against the run of play, on 17 minutes, his long kick found Mitchell down the Lynn left who chipped over former Lynn keeper Ben Killip (one appearance).
Buoyed by the goal, Lynn began to create chances, particularly down their left side but often crosses were put in but there was no one to apply the finishing touch.
For the visitors, David Ferguson and Nicky Featherstone were off target but on 37 minutes they equalised. Ferguson put the ball into a crowded box for Luke Armstrong to score his third goal against Lynn this season.
Sonny Carey saw his shot from distance well saved by Killip but just before the break Lynn retook the lead. A Mitchell/Payne one-two resulted in Carey seeing his shot saved and, just as it looked as if his attempt to put in the rebound was going wide, Gyasi was there to turn the ball in.
The visitors introduced left winger Rhys Oates after the break who caused problems for the Lynn defence. An Oates pull-back found Jamie Sterry who fired wide but on 64 minutes Featherstone's corner found the head of Oates to level the scores.
Pool dominated the later stages of the game with Ryan Johnson going close from another Featherstone set piece and Richardson did well to keep out efforts from Gavan Holohan and Gary Liddle as Lynn held on.
Lynn: Richardson, Callan-McFadden, Smith, Clunan, Richards, Gyasi (Jackson 60), Fleming, Carey, Denton, Payne, Mitchell. Subs: Gash, Bastock, Jackson, Gascoigne. Booked: Richards, Payne, Fleming. Scorer: Mitchell 16, Gyasi 45
Hartlepool: Killip, Sterry, Cooper (Oates 46), Liddle, Johnson, Ferguson, Featherstone, White, Shelton (Holohan 74), Molyneux (Williams 85), Armstrong. Subs: Donaldson, Crawford, Williams, Holohan, Oates. Scorers: Armstrong 37. Oates 64