NOTTS

Notts were well on track to take it to the latter stages of their innings, Ben Slater and Alex Hales making half-centuries.

Teenager Crawford, from Blacon, fired home from eight yards to hand Notts the lead in the North East before Ashley Fletcher levelled on 27 minutes.

County reached the League Two play-offs but lost 5-2 on aggregate to Notts County in a controversial semi-final last week.

They will finish sixth if they lose to Colchester, and Notts County and Coventry win, and Lincoln fail to beat Yeovil.

NOTTS COUNTY: Fitzsimons 8, Tootle 6, Brisley 7, Duffy 7, Jones 6, Hawkridge 6 (Noble 74, 6), Yates 7, Hewitt 7, Grant 7 (Walker 90), Stead 7 (Smith 81), Alessandra 6.

"We defended well and you have to against Notts because they do the basics really well."

Requiring more than 11 runs an over, Notts got off to a flying start with Hales and Riki Wessels putting on 87 in the first 5.4 overs before Wessels fell to Azeem Rafiq for 34.

It took a timely block by Thierry Audel to deny Nahki Wells before Notts levelled things up through Noble, who had time and space to convert Da Silva's cross from 20 yards out.

Bedford cut Morpeth's (Kevin Calvert) lead by seven seconds on leg four but Carl Avery regained the lost seconds on leg five as Notts AC regained second spot.

In fact, before they went ahead a clever free-kick routine almost caught out Notts. After a foul on Gray, Paul Caddis eyed up a 25-yarder over the wall but instead squared the ball out to the right of the area where Olly Lee fizzed it hard and low into the crowd.

Warren Hargreaves was scoring most goals for Notts Forest while Graham for the Jam was doing his best to get them back in it and was their stand out player by far.