Reserves Draw With Damonds

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The Crewe team also saw triallist Paul Evans. With Smart injured it was Edwards and Varney fighting for a place on the bench for Saturdays first team match at Rotherham.

It was Varney who did his chances no harm with a couple of goals. Jason Taylor put the Diamonds in front after Rushden piled pressure on the Alex, goal coming 20 minutes in.

Crewe equalised when Bell's corner from scrambled in by 20 year old Luke Varney. On the stroke of half time though Manangu put the home side back in front.

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So the Diamonds went in at 2-1 at half time. On the hour mark Crewe equalised again after domination. A Belly cross found the head of Varney as he sent the ball into the back of the net.

Evans then gave Dario something to think about when he saved a penalty. The South African keeper is being looked at by Dario.

Diamonds (starting line-up): Petterson, Burnden, Joseph, Mills, Edwards, Peters, Story, Hanlon, Taylor, Manangu, Talbot

Crewe (starting line-up): Paul Evans, Adam Yates, Ryan Austin, Mark Roberts, Andrew Bond, Lee Bell, Neil Sorvel, James Robinson, Michael Higdon, Paul Edwards, Luke Varney.