Stourbridge 1 Farsley Celtic 2 - Report

Glassboys keeper Harry Beasley suffered a moment to forget as Ben Atkinson’s low shot skipped up off the turf and sailed over his grounded body 18 minutes in.

Luke Benbow soon erased that moment of misfortune by firing in a deflected leveller within two minutes but Farsley struck what proved to be the decisive blow with less than a minute of the second half played.

Little had happened prior to the opener which saw Celtic’s Nathan Turner spread the play from the congested centre for Atkinson to take a pot shot which bounced over Beasley as he dived to his right.

Benbow’s goal had an element of fortune but he certainly worked for it, holding off his marker following a throw from the left with his shot swirling inside the far post via a hefty Farsley ricochet.

The Stourbridge hitman might have notched a second just before the half-hour mark only for keeper Graeme McKibbin to race out and nudge away with his boot.

Beasley did well to push against the inside of the post Nathan Cartman’s powerful header towards the bottom corner but Isaac Baldwin was on hand to thrash into the empty net just after the restart and the visitors quickly resorted to winding down the clock.

Stourbridge had hope when Luke Shearer’s dash across the box was crudely ended by Adam Clayton’s lunge only for Benbow to scuff his spot-kick and afford McKibbin an easy save 52 minutes in.

The hosts never gave up but flattered to deceive in the final third with Leon Broadhurst and substitute Chris Lait frustrated by McKibbin late on.

Glassboys: Beasley, Christophorou (Antonio, 82), Westlake, McCone, Pierpoint, Shearer, Tonks, Broadhurst, Benbow, Anderson (Lait, 69), Gater. Unused subs: Hall, Cooke, Evans.