COLWYN BAY 2

RUTHIN TOWN 1

TWO late goals halted Ruthin Town's hopes of claiming a notable weekend success.

Kevin Evans' effort had Chris Hardy's side 1-0 up during their JD Cymru North trip to Colwyn Bay on Saturday.

However, the Seagulls scored two goals in the last quarter-of-an-hour to come from behind and complete a league double over Ruthin.

After defender Evans had given Town the lead from a corner, Will Bell scored his second goal in six games to make it 1-1 on 76 minutes.

Then, substitute Julian Williams got the winner in the dying minutes.

Hard-working Ruthin made a bright start to the encounter.

Osian Davies and Dan Cox dominated the midfield, picking up the second ball and playing good football.

Gwion Owen looked dangerous and he had a good shot early on that clipped the crossbar.

Will Owen was injured in the warm up and the evergreen Craig Wilkinson was given the opportunity to remind all of his qualities.

It was a full 11 minutes before keeper Ryan Goldston touched the ball as Ruthin probed.

Colwyn Bay did start to come into the game after a quarter-of-an-hour and while Ruthin were the better team in the first half, neither side really troubled the respective goalkeepers.

Ruthin did make their breakthrough three minutes into the second half.

There was promise from the visitors when Colwyn Bay number one Andy Coughlin was finally called into action to make a tremendous diving save to turn a Gwion Owen shot from 12 yards out around the post.

However, from the ensuing corner, Kevin Evans put the visitors in front with a close range header.

Ruthin looked comfortable after this as they worked hard and played some good football in winning the midfield battle.

Colwyn Bay were reduced to pumping long hopeful crosses into the box, which Ryan Goldston handled well.

The game changed with 20 minutes to go as Toby Jones was introduced by Colwyn Bay and Craig Wilkinson came off for Ruthin.

A few minutes later and the influential Gwion Owen picked up a knock and he was much less mobile.

Ruthin keeper Ryan Goldston, whose handling from crosses throughout had been excellent, made a flying save to touch a Mitch Bryant shot away for a corner.

From the flag kick, the ball fell for Will Bell to drive a right-footed shot into the bottom corner of the net for the equaliser.

Toby Jones had a screamer again brilliant tipped away for a corner by the keeper and a well-timed last-ditch tack by Kevin Evans denied Mitch Bryant a goal as the Bay pushed for a winner.

There was no panic in the Ruthin ranks and Llyr Morris fired in a screamer that went just wide of the goal.

The game looked like it would end in a draw until Mitch Bryant collected the ball on the left.

He was covered by two defenders, but somehow managed to get the ball across to oncoming substitute Julian Williams at the near post and he delivered the killer blow on 89 minutes.