K Sports (0) 2 Butler 47 Oshin 69
Tunbridge Wells (0) 2 Wells 54 Hudson 88
Attendance: 207
Admission: £4 Senior
Programme: None
Mileage: 36/712
Aaron Lee-Wharton was the hero as Tunbridge Wells managed to leave Cobdown with a point following Harry Hudson’s headed equaliser a couple of minutes from the end in a tightly contested game.
In a mirror image of the opening minutes of Saturday’s game against Sheppey, Regan Corke was the early threat giving Jordan Wells the chance to press K Sports goalkeeper, Charlie Walker, into action.
K Sports had the opportunity for an eighth minute lead after James Nurdin had brought down Isaac Bignell with a clumsy challenge. Victor Aiyelabola’s spot kick was saved low to his left by Lee-Wharton, who then reacted brilliantly to turn aside the follow-up from George Batten.
In terms of chances, the game was nick and tuck throughout the first half, the best of the efforts coming from Josh Froggatt, whose impudent lob from 30 yards wasn’t too far away and Lee-Wharton needed to be at his brilliant best to claw an Aiyelabola effort out of the top corner after 40 minutes.
K Sports needed just two minutes of the second period to open the scoring. Bignell supplying the cross for Kane Butler to fire home a shot that took a deflection to wrong foot Lee-Wharton.
Tunbridge Wells responded well and in the space of two minutes, both full backs Nurdin and Frankie Griffin tested Walker before, in the 55th minute, Jordan Wells crashed home a shot from 30 yards that left the goalkeeper grasping at thin air.
In the 66th minute, K Sports were offered another golden opportunity to regain their lead when Robbie Bissett was deemed to have brought down Butler on the right side of the box. Responsibility this time fell to Ian Batten, but he could only watch with despair and amazement as his shot bound for the top corner was clawed away by Lee-Wharton with an incredible save.
The relief for the Wells lasted just moments when following the resultant corner, Michael Oshin stabbed home a loose ball in the six yard box.
Tunbridge Wells went in search of an equaliser and the home side looked hard for a third that would put the game to bed, so good chances came at both ends.
On 72 minutes, substitute Euan Sahadow found Corke at the near post but his shot was turned away by Walker and quickly followed by K Sports Max Morgan being sent through only for more heroics from Lee-Wharton saving at his feet.
Hudson was thrown forward in the search for the equaliser and with seven minutes remaining firstly his shot was deflected wide for a corner, from which, his header was narrowly wide.
But Hudson was to be the saviour. A shot from the left was pushed away by Walker but Corke recycled the ball from the right and stood up a cross for the spring-heeled Hudson to bury with a firm header.
Tunbridge Wells, almost certainly went home the happier with their first point of the season whilst K Sports, for 24 hours, lead the embryonic table.
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