Bridlington 3, Kendal Town 1

A REPEAT performance was the order of the day following the midweek success against Ashton United.

However, the Kendal Town players never looked like emulating that effort as they struggled against a side who play in the first division of the North Counties East League.

Manager Bryan Griffiths not surprisingly named an unchanged team for this first qualifying-round tie, but from the outset Kendal never stamped any authority on the game, failing to dominate in the middle of the park at any stage.

Bridlington created the first scoring chance after seven minutes as Burkinshaw dispossesssed Dave Burrows and forced a save from Tim Wood.

Three minutes later, Kendal were awarded a free kick on the edge of the box.

Stuart Darley took it quickly only to see his shot blaze over the bar.

Instead Bridlington went ahead in the 25th minute when attacking wing back Burdick was allowed to turn on the edge of the box and shoot wide of Wood.

Town came back to level the scores five minutes before the interval, Steve Hodgson driving home the loose ball after home keeper Bramley could only parry a Steve Sugden effort.

But the second half was barely a minute old when the Town defence were caught napping, giving Edeson too much freedom and he drilled his shot past Wood from 20 yards.

In the 52nd minute referee Mr Sutton sent offf Bridlington's Baker following a second bookable offence on Darley, but Town's numerical advantage was short-lived as the Lincoln official deemed Hodgson's physical challenge on Burdick worthy of a straight red card just three minutes later.

Town were running short of ideas with leading scorer Ged Courtney having to revert to wide positions in an attempt to get some sort of service and the visitors' fate was apparently sealed in the 75th minute when a ball out of defence by Darley was intercepted and crossed to the far post where Edeson made no mistake for his second goal of the game.

John Dann and Antony Lally were introduced for the last 10 minutes but the writing was on the wall as this lacklustre performance left Kendal well beaten.