Tunbridge Wells (1) 3 Kamara 29 Lewins 79 McCreadie 90+3
K Sports (0) 0
Attendance: 331
Admission: £5 Senior
Programme: £2
Mileage: 38/7,091
A strange game in which the Wells produced three very good goals with sweeping moves from one end to the other in a match that for the most part was woefully short of quality.
Not unsurprisingly, on a pleasantly warm afternoon in front of an impressive Easter Saturday attendance of 331, the game had an end-of-season feel about it. Tunbridge Wells are marooned in the middle of the table with nothing but pride to play for whilst this result all but ensures that the visitors, K Sports, will be relegated.
A few dry days at least saw the pitch vastly improved from the difficult surface of Tuesday evening.
The biggest talking point of the opening 10 minutes was the colour of the shirt of the Tunbridge Wells goalkeeper, a virtually identical yellow to that of K Sports. How the referee allowed it was mystifying.
K Sports goalkeeper, Sebastian Barford (who went on to have a good game) saved from Festof Kamara after being released by James Nurden and a couple of minutes later was tested by Connor Pring.
Eventually, after half-an-hour of completely one-way traffic the Wells broke the deadlock with a goal that started with a sweeping crossfield pass from Pring, the heartbeat of this Wells side, to the right from where Jordan Sarfo laid the ball into the path of Kamara who scored at the second attempt as the ball came back off Barford.
Something riled the K Sports manager enough to get himself a red card, goodness know what, and he was removed from the technical area to stand beside the dug outs!
K Sports hardly ventured over the half-way line in the first half in which the final opportunity fell to Kamara to see his shot deflected into the side netting.
The direction of play barely changed during the second period but the game dragged itself into the later stages before the Wells put it to bed.
Good chances fell to centre half Dan Tear, who steered a header wide; a shot from Nurden that narrowly cleared the bar and an effort from Sarfo that was wide after he had robbed a dwelling defender.
It was in keeping with the game that from a rare foray forward and a K Sports corner from which Tonbridge Angels Academy leading goalscorer, Ben Hermitage, saw his header cleared from the line by Billy Lewins for the ball to be swept forward and none other than Lewins himself to race clear and score.
In the final moments of time added, Tunbridge Wells scored a third when substitute Jacob Feasey broke down the left to lay the ball on a plate for Trevor McCreadie to score his 26th goal of the season.
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