Orient delay their demise

CRISIS club LEYTON ORIENT dented LUTON’S automatic promotion hopes with a 2-2 draw at Kenilworth Road.

At the end of a week which saw the PFA step in to help cover Orient players’ wages, the League’s bottom club took a shock 2- 1 lead through Liam Kelly’s penalty and a strike from 18year-old Tristan Abrahams after Danny Hylton had given Luton the lead.

But Orient’s 112-year stay in the Football League looks set to end after Isaac Vassell equalised to leave them stranded 10 points behind 22nd-placed Hartlepool — who they play on Easter Monday — with four games remaining.

Luton, who trail thirdplaced Portsmouth by eight points, may have to settle for the play-offs.

Mickey Demetriou’s second-half free-kick boosted

NEWPORT’S survival hopes in a 1-0 victory over YEOVIL.

Newport were 11 points adrift of safety at the foot of League Two when Mike Flynn replaced manager Graham Westley, but the Welsh side are now only a point behind HARTLEPOOL, who held play- off chasing

CARLISLE to a 1-1 draw. Flynn said: ‘ We should have scored two or three today but luckily I told Demetriou to take the free-kick and he scored.’

Yeovil’s defeat leaves them only four points clear of the drop zone while

CHELTENHAM are just two points away after their 0-0 draw at CRAWLEY.

After losing to Newport last week, fifth- placed

EXETER strengthened their play- off push with a 2- 1 home win over BARNET.