LEAGUE TABLE
Saturday 24th September
National North |
King's Lynn Town
|
9 |
10 |
21 |
Banbury United
|
9 |
7 |
19 |
AFC Fylde
|
9 |
4 |
19 |
Kidderminster H
|
9 |
7 |
17 |
Darlington
|
9 |
6 |
17 |
Scarborough Ath
|
9 |
4 |
17 |
Leamington
|
9 |
5 |
15 |
Chorley
|
9 |
6 |
13 |
Alfreton Town
|
9 |
4 |
13 |
Peterborough Sp
|
9 |
2 |
13 |
Brackley Town
|
9 |
-1 |
13 |
Curzon Ashton
|
9 |
2 |
12 |
Chester
|
9 |
1 |
12 |
Spennymoor Town |
9 |
-1 |
12 |
Gloucester City
|
9 |
-2 |
12 |
Hereford
|
9 |
0 |
11 |
Southport
|
9 |
-7 |
10 |
Boston United
|
9 |
-4 |
9 |
Farsley Celtic
|
9 |
-4 |
9 |
Buxton
|
9 |
-5 |
8 |
Blyth Spartans
|
9 |
-9 |
7 |
Kettering Town
|
9 |
-6 |
6 |
AFC Telford Utd
|
9 |
-11 |
6 |
Bradford (PA)
|
9 |
-8 |
3 |
King's Lynn Town made it nine league games unbeaten when they gained a point at Curzon Ashton who themselves had only lost once in six.
It was, perhaps, telling that home keeper Chris Renshaw was named man-of-the-match for a number of fines saves.
The Linnets welcomed back Michael Clunan and Tyler Denton to the starting line-up with Josh Barrett dropping to the bench and no place for Kyle Callan-McFadden.
The visitors dominated possession with the Nash relying on breaks. Clunan got on the end of a free kick on 16 minutes and, from the edge of the area, hit the bar and four minutes the same player had an opportunity but his shot went well wide.
The best chance of the opening half came on 43 minutes and fell to Gold Omotayo whose close range header was well saved by Renshaw.
The Nash took the lead five minutes after the restart when Will Hayhurst found space behind the Lynn defence to race Lynn keeper Paul Jones to the loose ball.
The result was close as to who got there first but Jones was adjudged to have fouled Hayhurst and Josh Hancock scored from the resulting penalty.
Lynn equalised on 63 minutes when Cameron Hargreaves was on hand to tap into an empty net after Renshaw had pulled off two good saves.
Renshaw continued to thwart Lynn, denying Omotayo and Ben Stephens and Lynn having to settle for a point but still top of the league.
Nash: Renshaw, Hampson, Poscha, Matthews, Walker (Hall 39), Peers (Waring 80), Hancock (Dimaio 84), Hayhurst, Richards, Mahon, Barton Subs: Dimaio, Hall, Waring, Ollerenshaw, Hobson. Scorer; Hancock (50 pen)
Lynn: P Jones, A Jones (Stephens 76), Crowther, Coulson, Denton (Fleming 26), Scott, Widdrington, Clunan, Hargreaves (Barrett 83), Ponticelli, Omotayo. Subs: Barrett, Stephens, Fleming, Charles, Keller. Scorer: Hargreaves 63
Attendance: 508