Gateshead came back from a goal down to hammer Kettering for a fifth successive Blue Square Bet Premier win.

Jean-Paul Marna put the Poppies in front with his fourth goal in three games, firing into the roof of the net from 12 yards.

Phil Turnbull equalised with a fine strike from 25 yards and Jon Shaw nodded home Martin Brittain's cross.

Another Shaw header made it 3-1, before Ben Clark scored their third headed goal from another Brittain cross.

The Tynesiders have now scored 11 away goals in four days, with Shaw scoring five of them, following Saturday's 7-2 hammering at Wrexham.

Kettering: Gueret, O'Neill (McDonald 70), Davis, Flanagan, Solkhon, Wilson, McKoy, Noubissie (Challinor 54), John (Furlong 71), Mills, Marna.
Subs Not Used: Rayner.

Goals: Marna 28.

Gateshead: Deasy, Tavernier, Liddle (Baxter 79), Curtis, Clark, Brittain, Gate, Turnbull, Nelthorpe (Gillies 76), Shaw (Wake 79), Fisher.
Subs Not Used: Farman, Winn.

Goals: Turnbull 44, Shaw 45, 53, Clark 77.

Att: 812

Ref: Simon Long (Suffolk).

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