By Ste Bignall
IT ENDED honours even as Runcorn Linnets and Pontefract Collieries threw their differing pre-season form in the bin to earn a point apiece.
Pontefract will have been cursing their luck not to be leading at halftime, having had two efforts cleared off the line along with a string of fine saves from Linnets keeper Bayleigh Passant.
Pontefract did take the lead in the first minute of the second half, Joe Lumsden getting a fortunate bounce go his way to slide the ball past Passant. Runcorn made changes and these turned the game around.
Within a minute of coming on Connor McCarthy...