A tight and exciting game of football was played out at The John Keegan Stadium last night between Marske Utd U-21’s and Park View Academy U-21’s with the game ending tied at 1-1.

Marske took the lead on 20 minutes with Jake Cowen heading home at the far post from a pin point cross from Robbie Cuthbert.

Marske had two good opportunities that they failed to convert before they were punished with Park View levelling on 32 minutes with a good finish from the edge of the box.

Possession was pretty even throughout the game with perhaps Marske just edging the encounter on better chances created but on reflection a draw was probably a fair result.

A number of strong performances from within the Marske ranks last night with Robbie Cuthbert and James Pomfret putting a hard shift in in the middle of the park and the ever impressive Tom Lowe causing problems up front.

At the back Dylan Coyne was solid and secure, not putting a foot wrong all night and alongside him Will Robinson in his 2nd game back from a 6 week injury layoff was calm and commanding alongside him controlling the back line and just edged the others for the man of the match award.

Strong shout out to Frankie Sharples who was playing his 2nd game back after dislocating his shoulder back in November against Redcar, he made all the right decisions last night and swept up well on the occasions Park View threatened to get in behind the back line.

Thanks to everyone who came down to support.

We will be home again next week for our last home game of the season as we take on 2nd placed i2i U-21’s.

We are still in the race for a 2nd placed finish which would be a fantastic result for our 1st season together but to do this we must beat i2i which is no easy task.

Hopefully we will see more of you down for the game next week, free entry again.