A brace of tries in the final five minutes enabled Barnet Elizabethans to win this twice postponed league match but they were unable to gain a bonus point so they stay in third place, one point behind Fullerians, with two matches left.

There are two promotion places from this league - leaders Old Haberdashers are well clear of these chasing two clubs.

The first-half display was dreadful by both teams. Some of the good sized crowd may have wished this match might have been called off at half time but it livened up after the break.

At half time, it was 3-3, both sides having kicked a penalty goal - JONNY HART for BE - but neither team created any other chance.

Immediately after the restart, a piece of brilliance from scrum half ROBERT FIRTH gave BE a great opportunity: he fielded a poor tap down from the lineout but managed to collect the ball, turn and then waltz through the away team to score a brilliant try which JONNY HART converted from the touchline.

The visitors made life difficult for BE thereafter, with strong running and tackling, and they kicked another penalty goal which coincided with a BE player being sin binned.

Cheshunt continued to control the game and deserved their converted try.

As the half continued, and BE were restored to 15 men, plus good substitutions, the home pack took over control and forced a series of penalties: knowing a goal kick was insufficent for their promotion hopes, they had a series of scrums and lineouts close to the Cheshunt line.

From one, fly half SEAN BLAKE broke through for a try which JONNY HART converted.

In the final move, BE's flying winger GLYN BAYLEY chased a long ball which bounced away from him but also from the defender, but BAYLEY was quicker to respond and touched down with HART converting.

BE play their last home league game of the season this Saturday (26th) against Old Ashmoleans, at 3pm.

Peter Yates