Morpeth Town exited the Northumberland Senior Cup at the quarter-final stage after a 3-2 defeat to Newcastle United Under-23s at Craik Park.
Callum Roberts and Tom Heardman gave the visitors a two-goal lead inside the opening 19 minutes.
Matthew Grieve responded with a glancing header on the stroke of half-time before Mark Davison equalised six minutes after the restart.
Morpeth had chances to go ahead through Davison and Liam Henderson, but Dan Ward’s 76-minute winner proved to be a sucker-punch against the run of play.
The Highwaymen have a week to prepare for their League Cup second round match away to Penrith next Wednesday.
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Morpeth Town: Dryden, Forster, Turner, Sayer (Doninger, 81 min), Grieve, Reid, Taylor, Graydon, Davison (Chilton, 88 min), Henderson, Walton (Robinson, 81 min)
Subs Not Used: Anderson, Hall
Newcastle United Under-23s: Woodman, Barlaser, Gibson, Hunter, Williams, Findlay, Holmes (El-Mhanni, 78 min), Ward, Heardman, Roberts, Smith (Charman, 69 min)
Subs Not Used: Good, Huuhtanen
Goals: 0-1, 14 min, Roberts; 0-2, 19 min, Heardman; 1-2, 45+1 min, Grieve; 2-2, 51 min, Davison; 2-3, 76 min, Ward.
Referee: Paul Brown
Assistants: Adam Nichol and Stephen Beresford
Attendance: 345
Photo: Chris Chambers/ CJC Photo (Official Morpeth Town Photographer)
