Bamber Bridge recorded their best result of the season on Saturday and banished the ghosts of one of their worst performances this term.

Phil Entwistle's team were thrashed 4-1 at Irongate against highly-fancied Newcastle Blue Star in August, but they came back to beat the same opposition 2-0 at the weekend.

Although Brig have been scoring goals for fun recently, they've been shipping them like a sieve at the back, so Entwistle was relieved to bring back defender Stuart Howson was suspension.

Steve Flitcroft, Ryan-Zico Black and Anthony Murt also returned but the first half was a cagey affair.

The first chance came from a cross by Neil Zarac which a sliding Alex Porter just failed to get on the end of.

After the break, Murt had a good chance but shot wide while Porter saw his first-time shot fly wide.

Brig took the lead after 66 minutes. A long Adam Tong throw found its way to Zarac, who fired home.

Newcastle Blue Star are the league's highest scorers with 34 goals but they failed to find an equaliser and fell 2-0 behind when Zico-Black added a second.

Zico-Black had already been denied once but he was alert enough to dispossess a Blue Star defender after 80 minutes, advance towards goal and fire past goalkeeper Daniel Lowson.

• Bamber Bridge: Andy Banks, Collin McAllister, Tom Ince, Stuart Howson, Adam Tong, Glenn Steel, Ryan-Zico Black, Steve Flitcroft, Neil Zarac (Steve Brown 74mins), Alex Porter, Anthony Murt.




• Unused subs: Dave McCann, Michael Mason, Mark Edmeads