Tamworth 1-3 Kettering

Kettering moved to within a point of the Blue Square Premier play-off places with a comfortable win at Tamworth.

The Poppies never looked back after two goals in four first-half minutes.

Kwesi Appiah grabbed the first, firing past Lambs keeper Danny Alcock from inside the box, before Jay Smith turned a Darren Wrack cross into his own net.

James Dance added a third with a low drive from the edge of the penalty area before Chris Smith headed in Tom Shaw's corner for a late Tamworth consolation.

It might have been different had Bradley Pritchard taken an early chance to give the home side the lead rather than slice his effort wide from close range.

Tamworth: Alcock, Tait, Chris Smith, Wylde, Briscoe (Lake-Gaskin 46), Blackwood, Sheridan, Shaw, Pritchard (Murdock 46), Rodman (Lyttle 83), Jay Smith.
Subs Not Used: Fankem, MacKenzie.

Booked: Chris Smith, Murdock.

Goals: Chris Smith 83.

Kettering: Abbey, Taylor, Roper, Dempster, Jennings, Noubissie, Wrack, Hadfield (Boucaud 84), Kelly, Appiah (Marna 76), Dance (Robinson 79).
Subs Not Used: Thelwell, Thomas.

Booked: Hadfield, Taylor.

Goals: Appiah 16, Jay Smith 20 og, Dance 50.

Att: 473.

Ref: David Coote (Nottinghamshire).