Football - Kendal rein in league leaders (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Football - Kendal rein in league leaders

9:02am Wednesday 5th October 2005 in Sport By Dennis Aris

Kendal Town 2, Fleetwood Town 1.

A pulsating match at Parkside saw resurgent Kendal take the points against UniBond League First Division leaders Fleetwood Town.

For the first 30 minutes it was all Kendal and a goal was inevitable. It arrived in the ninth minute. Stuart Cliff delivered a looping ball across the Fleetwood box for Peter Smith to smash in from 15 yards.

Fleetwood keeper Andy Banks made a magnificent diving save to tip David Foster's volley round the post in the 15th minute, but the resulting corner kick rebounded from a defender and was bundled in the by Dene Whittal-Williams.

A fight back by Fleetwood was inevitable and in the 33rd minute left winger Lenny Reid twice feinting left, but cut infield and delivered a curler into the top right corner of the net from the edge of the area.

Fleetwood's Ian Stevens missed a chance to equalise when he just failed to connect with a low cross from two yards out and Richard Allen headed wide from a free-kick.

With half-time looming a Foster header rebounded from the crossbar.

End-to-end play continued in the second half and on 66 minutes Fleetwood almost grabbed the equaliser when Stevens slammed a volley against the bar from 10 yards.

After Nathan Pond was red carded for a second foul on 85 minutes the game was beyond the visitors.

Now Town will seek to make it three wins on the bounce in a home match with Chorley on Saturday. Kick-off is at 2pm because of the England v Austria World Cup qualifier at 4pm.