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Frickley recovered from falling behind twice to share the honours in a friendly with rivals Wakefield at South Elmsall.

There was a lack of fluency among the Blues while their Division 1 opponents snatched at whatever opportunities came their way.

The visitors lost goalkeeper Andy Woods through injury in the 11th minute, Liam Sutcliffe taking over between the posts, and doing well in the 24th minute to turn a curling corner from Chris White from under the bar, and the ball was knocked back into the middle where Adam Pollock lifted his shot over.

After a free-kick by White had seen both Nathan Hotte and Richard Medcalf have shots blocked, the ball was cleared to Delroy Ferguson on the right and he made space before knocking in a low cross for Chris Howarth to fire Wakefield in front after 35 minutes.

A deep cross from Hotte was headed off the line by Andy Shield in the 43rd minute as the Blues tried to level, and Steve Ball shaved an upright with a 30 yard free-kick.

Changes were made at the interval and Frickley tried to increase the tempo, Aaron Allanson sending a 35 yard drive just wide in the 56th minute, although it needed a fearless save from Andy Jeffrey to prevent Howarth improving the visitors lead a minute later.

The Blues got on terms in the 77th minute when a low free-kick on the right from Ryan Morton was volleyed in from ten yards by Steve Heath.

Ball rattled the bar for the home side with a 35 yard drive, only for Wakefield to regain the lead in the 81st minute, a raid down the right leading to Chris Coupe's ten yard shot being partially saved by Adam Nicklin but the ball finished just inside the near post.

Once again Frickley dragged themselves back into the game, Sutcliffe being judged to have brought down Hotte in the 83rd minute.

Although the keeper manager to partially block Ryan Morton's spot kick, he was unable to prevent the same player tucking in the rebound.

Report by Peter Jordan

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