Farsley Celtic 1 Witton Albion 1

Farsley Celtic were held to a home draw by one of their promotion chasing rivals in the Evo-Stik Premier Division as Witton Albion came back from a first-half deficit.

The visitors created several chances as they had the Celts under pressure in the first half with Michael Wilson, Tom Owens and Will Jones all going close. The home side had young keeper Kyle Trenerry to thank as he made two outstanding saves.

Trenerry foiled Jones when the Witton man was clean through, and later back peddled to tip a cheeky lob from the same player onto his crossbar. Having been under the cosh for most of the half the Celts snatched a 42nd minute lead when Nathan Cartman netted after a good run.

Witton equalised minutes before the hour mark and it was Jones who was the provider as his final pass picked out Rob Hopley, who neatly tucked a shot past Trenerry. The Farsley keeper had one more save of note to make but there was no late drama and the sides had to settle for a point apiece.

That lifted Adam Lakeland’s men to fourth place and maintained their nine-point advantage over seventh-placed Witton Albion who have two games in hand on the Celts.

Liversedge were on the road in the Toolstation Northern Counties East League and they suffered a 3-1 defeat in the Premier Division at high flying Handsworth Parramore.

The Ambers snatched a lead on the stroke of half-time when Jed Phillips lashed in a shot from distance. Sedge hit back five minutes after the break through Rhys Davies but Alex Rippon restored the home side’s lead ten minutes later and Phillips bagged his brace late on to keep the Ambers – who were beaten 2-1 at Throstle Nest by Albion Sports last Saturday – in fourth place.