Sholing suffer penalty heartbreak which leaves away side stoked.

A 70^th minute penalty rescued a point for Basingstoke as both sides give away winning positions.

Early on, Basingstoke’s Robbie Gallagher pounced on a poor Reece Wylie touch and allowed George Reid to force a corner.

A resulting lucky bounce allowed Jack Ball to open the scoring for the visitors within two minutes.

Sholing keeper, Pat Nash wasn’t short of confidence, out skilling Liam Ferdinand, within six yards.

Boatmen skipper, Jake Hesketh, eager to get his men back in the game, led by example, tenaciously wrestling the ball back into Sholing possession multiple times.

The home side were creating plenty of movement in midfield and Dan Mason ran his socks off to try and make something of them.

Sholing’s work rate paid off, finding the equaliser as Harry Taylor appeared to get something to a Hesketh free kick which confused Mack Allen as it bounced past him, although there were a few people who thought Mason got the final touch and there were that many bodies, it could’ve been either. HT:1-1

In the infancy of the second half, The Stokes almost had a chance to restore their lead, the exact same way they opened it, and Jack Ball would’ve turned provider, having beaten Romeo Akinola to a loose ball.

Akinola won his own free kick, brought down after doing very well to stay on his feet under pressure from two closing away defenders, Mason failed to convert.

Full back Bradley Targett popped up on the right wing and went toe to toe with his opposite number, causing the keeper to come out along with a Sholing corner.

An altercation between Wylie and Gallagher and the subsequent decision by the referee, caused outrage amongst both sets of players, swarming the official.

Sholing took the lead through another scramble and this one was definitely Taylor’s as he got his body ahead of the reaching hand of Mack Allen to turn the game around.

The lead lasted seconds, with Nash committing a foul outside his area and James Clark converted the ensuing penalty and made the scores level once more. Neither side could find a late winner and it ended even. FT 2-2