Extra special Lee

Conference Cup
ACCRINGTON STANLEY 2 YORK 1 (aet)

LEE McEvilly was the Stanley hero as he scored a last minute extra time goal to seal a fourth round home tie against Tamworth in the GLS Conference Cup.

The Stanley striker got on the end of a Rory Prendergast ball out of defence, charged forward and finished superbly with virtually the last kick of the game with the penalty shoot-out looming.

It was a huge relief for boss John Coleman after three games without a win."It will have done the lads confidence the world of good - with the performance and the result. We played a lot better and we got what we deserved.

"It looked like one of those days when their goal would lead a charmed life but Lee finished well.Now we have got to take this into our league form."

The Reds suffered a shock when Conference strugglers York went ahead  after 10 minutes when the lively Andy Bishop fired home Kevin Donovan's right wing cross. Stanley had chances to get back in it with several good balls into the

box before McEvilly played another one in on 34 minutes, Paul Mullin chested down and defended Jonathan Smith fired home.

Ian Craney could have scored what Coleman called the "goal of the century" when he saw the keeper out of his goal, 40 yards away but his effort  bounced just over the bar with Chris Porter backtracking. After the break, Bishop had

a 20 yard free kick tipped over by Danny  Alcock while Mullin just failed to get on the end of a number of dangerous crosses.

In the dying minutes Smith had an effort tipped over by Porter while Paul Robinson could have won it for York in injury time but struck the ball just wide of the far post.

And McEvilly missed an open goal with a header to the agony of the watching cold supporters before the game went into extra time. Craney had two good chances which resulted in desperate clearances before

McEvilly finally found a way past Porter with 120 minutes on the clock. "We made things happen for us tonight," added Coleman. "Lee was the man of the match in my book and was a handful. Hopefully we will go on from here."