Southport earned a vital point at Rushden & Diamonds to keep themselves out of the relegation zone.

Matt Johnson scored from six yards to hand Rushden the lead, before Matty McGinn equalised from the spot after Gary Mills felled Shaun Whalley.

Whalley then completed the Yellows comeback when he latched on to a punt upfield and chipped keeper Joe Day.

But Max Porter denied the visitors all three points with a heavily-deflected effort that trickled in.

Rushden & D'monds:

Joe Day, Miller, Oshodi, Huke, Jamie Day, Porter, Mills (Corcoran 63), Power, Johnson, Gash, Farrell (Shariff 70).
Subs Not Used: Evans, Keehan, Woolley.

Goals: Johnson 28, Porter 77.

Southport: McMillan, Williams, Davis, Marsh-Evans, Lever, Whalley, Turner, Moogan, McGinn (Kissock 81), Daly (McNeil 65), Tony Gray (Ledsham 65).
Subs Not Used: Dickinson, Blakeman.

Booked: Turner, Lever.

Goals: McGinn 37 pen, Whalley 55.

Att: 1,061

Ref: John Martin (Cambridge).

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