Beverley Town FC 2

Beverley Town had to pick themselves up from a dismal performance against St Andrews for this very difficult outing to the seaside to face Hornsea where, if they were to gain maximum points, they would have to complete a first ever away victory at the Hollis recreation ground.

Beverley where without Mike Evins, Sam Overton, Mike Winfield and Danny Cattle. Into the squad came Mark Frampton and Dean Chilcott

Beverley opened the brighter of the two Town sides with a Rich Durham volley going wide in the first minute.

But they soon opened the scoring in the 7th minute when Michael O’Connell was fouled just outside the penalty area. He took the kick himself drilling the ball into the corner of the net with the keeper rooted to his line.

In the 17th minute Hornsea should have equalised but a free header was directed wide of the mark.

Beverley had chances with Kershaw and Rich Jagger missing opportunities but in the 28th minute profited when an apparently tame challenge in the area resulted in the official awarding them a penalty kick. O’Connell made no mistake to register his and Beverley’s second goal.

It did not take long for the referee to make another strange decision - this one was in favour of Hornsea when in the 32nd minute he awarded them a penalty for alleged handball from a corner and they duly reduced the arrears.

The game was now becoming hard fought, with niggling and frustration creeping in for both teams. Thankfully half time arrived to give both managers the opportunity to settle their players down .

Shaun Gibson should have done better in the 49th minute when his effort was comfortably saved by the Hornsea keeper and a minute later Craig Lamplugh should have made Hornsea pay when he was given a good chance after some intelligent quick thinking from Kershaw played him in, but the Hornsea keeper was quick off his line and cleared the danger.

Hornsea missed a good chance too when Beverley unsuccessfully appealed for offside, the shot was deflected for a corner by Beverley keeper Mark Cockin. But in the 74th minute Beverley could have put the game to bed when Kershaw gained possession of the ball and from an acute angle shot at the keeper.

With legs tiring Beverley introduced Mark Frampton and Dean Chilcott and almost immediately were reduced to 10 men when they had a man sent off.

However Beverley battled out the final minutes with a superb rearguard performance to take all three points and a first ever victory at Hornsea.,

Beverley’s last three games have been the good, the bad and the ugly - a good win against Reckitts, a bad defeat versus St Andrews and then this ugly but well deserved victory at Hornsea.