Managerless Carlisle United ended 10-man Mansfield's 17-game unbeaten run with a thrilling 3-2 League Two win in their first match since John Sheridan's resignation.
The Stags played throughout the second-half a man short after Neal Bishop was given a second yellow card while the players headed for the tunnel at the break.
Before that, first-half goals from Jack Sowerby and Hallam Hope gave Carlisle the lead at the half-way stage and despite Matt Preston pulling one back for Mansfield, Hope added his second.
Tyler Walker scored for the Stags and set up a tense finish but the Cumbrians clung on.
Carlisle scored with their first real raid in the fourth minute, as Jamie Devitt, Hope and Ashley Nadesan all played a part in the move which set up Sowerby, who drilled a low shot past Conrad Logan from the edge of the area.
The Cumbrians grabbed their second goal in the 26th minute when Devitt and Nadesan combined on the right.
Fleetwood forward Nadesan, playing the last game of his loan period for Carlisle, squared across the box to find the unmarked Hope who bundled the ball home.
A foul from Carlisle's Danny Grainger led to some pushing and shoving, with Bishop handed his first yellow before the tunnel incident that saw him dismissed.
Preston threw Mansfield a 77th-minute lifeline when he headed a Malvind Benning free-kick past Adam Collin.
Carlisle's two-goal lead was restored two minutes later when Hope went through to provide a composed finish as he slipped the ball past Logan.
Mansfield were not finished and Walker headed in from directly under the bar after Hayden White had caught Collin out of position with his high cross, but it was too late to deny Carlisle a sixth straight win.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
