PRINCIPALITY WELSH PREMIER LEAGUE PORTHMADOG FC 2-2 THE NEW SAINTS Sunday 15 Feb 2009 / The Traeth

Steve Evans fires home the equaliser.

THE New Saints squandered two more crucial Welsh Premier points at the Traeth as they were held to a 2-2 draw.
And it needed an equaliser from Steve Evans six minutes from time to save the Saints' blushes after they had gone two-down inside the first 23 minutes in an abject first-half performance.
John Rowley headed past Paul Harrison from Marcus Orlik's byline cross with just three minutes on the clock and it got even worse when Barry Hogan inexplicably flapped at the ball with his hand under pressure from Rowley and Mike Foster slotted home the resulting penalty.
The Saints huffed and puffed but never looked like scoring before the break, resulting in Evans being pushed forward into a striking role at the start of the second-half.
It immediately started to unsettled the Port defence with the giant defender heading wide from a Craig Williams cross.
But it took two mistakes from debutant keeper Liam Shanahan to get TNS back on terms.
He first allowed Conall Murtagh's 20-yard drive to slip through his grasp and then dropped a cross at the feet of Evans, who gratefully hammered the ball into the net from the edge of the six yard box.
Shanahan had earlier twice denied Evans with good saves, but in their only real attack of the second-half, the hosts should have scored again when sub Carl Jones had half the goal to aim at, but was denied by Harrison.
In a late flurry, TNS twice went close to a winner they barely deserved, but Port hung on for a share of the spoils.