Kelso United 1 Eyemouth United 1

Kelso United and Eyemouth produced a draw for the second time this season in an entertaining game at Woodside Park. United had three new faces in their line up for their first game in a month, Andrew Cook , Chris Black and Jamie Swales to face the seasiders. Although this was far from a dirty game referee Mark Doyle issued eight yellow cards and a red in the match.

The visitors got off to the best start and after 4 minutes a cross from Alan Jess was met by Jordan Ainslie but his shot was well saved by Scott Dowie in the Kelso goal.

Eyemouth went ahead in 15 minutes when a speculative cross from the right touchline into the Kelso box by full back Jordan Ainslie deceived everybody including the Kelso keeper and landed in the back of the net after hitting the inside top of the post. Kelso responded when both Niall McGurn and Chris Black had shots at goal but both were off target. With 30 minutes gone a long kick downfield by Scott Dowie found Jamie Swales and the young midfielders shot hit the outside of the post with the visitor keeper Shaun Simpson struggling. Five minutes from half time a shot from striker Stewart Coyle was goal bound but a terrific save by Scott Dowie diving to his right kept the visitors from going further ahead. Kelso almost equalised in the 42^nd minute when after some good work down the right by Chris Black ,the ex Selkirk man found Des Burnett in the box , the big striker managed to get round the keeper but his shot hit the underside of the bar and cleared by the Eyemouth defence.

United came out on the offensive after the break and put pressure on the Eyemouth defence when centre back Lawrie Dunn had his right foot shot cleared and this was followed by Eyemouth full back Michael Wales almost heading into his own goal from a cross from Jamie Swales. Kelso kept pressing throughout the second half and laid siege to the Eyemouth goal in the last ten minutes. A cross by Craig Edwards into the box found the head of Andrew Cook but the ex Raith Rovers players header went straight to the visitors keeper .United were nearly undone on the counterattack when following a break down the left the ball fell to Alan Jess, the wingers shot went past the United keeper but Lawrie Dunn was on hand to clear off the line. With two minutes to go United got the equaliser a ball down the right was chased by Lawrie Dunn who managed to beat the Eyemouth fullback Wales and whip in a cross to Des Burnett who headed past the keeper from close range. A minute later Eyemouth were down to ten men when Alan Jess was sent off for a second bookable offence. The action did not stop and Des Burnett nearly won it for the home team when his header from a Cook cross hit the underside of the bar. Back came Eyemouth and they nearly clinched the game with the last kick of the match but Andrew Cook saved the day with a last gasp clearance.

Kelso team : S Dowie , A Cook , K Tait , L Dunn , S Harker , D McNulty , N McGurn ( C Edwards 62 ) , J Swales , D Burnett , M Lockhart , C Black ( J Milner 73 )