LEAGUE TWO

TRANMERE 2 SCUNTHPE 0

A JAMES VAUGHAN double kick-started Rovers’ campaign. And manager Michael Jackson insisted there is much more to come. ‘We are improving,’ he said.

STEVENAGE 0 SALFORD 1

GRAHAM ALEXANDER hailed his Salford side’s display after Ashley Hunter’s early goal was enough to see off Stevenage. ‘It was important that we didn’t sit back after the start and we didn’t,’ Alexander said.

NEWPORT 2 MANSFIELD 1

MATTY DOLAN’S penalty saw Newport come from behind to beat Mansfield. Stephen McLaughlin’s opener for the visitors was cancelled out by Scott Twine.

FOREST GREEN 1 WALSALL 1

WALSALL boss Darrell Clarke insisted his side got away with ‘daylight robbery’. Caolan Lavery gave Walsall the lead, before Jamille Matt equalised in a game bossed by Rovers.

CARLISLE 1 BARROW 0

JON MELLISH (right) earned Carlisle the bragging rights in the first league Cumbrian derby to be played for 56 years.

But the home side had to play for 35 minutes with just 10 men after defender Aaron Hayden saw red.

Carlisle manager Chris Beech said: ‘We could have been out of sight before the sending off.’

EXETER 2 CAMBRIDGE 0

EXETER boss Matt Taylor was full of praise for his players. ‘Our defenders got their bodies in the way when they needed to,’ he said. Matt Jay’s penalty and a Joel Randall strike earned the points.

L ORIENT 0 CHELTENHAM 2

SAM LING’S own goal and a header by Finn Azaz earned Cheltenham a good away win. But boss Michael Duff wasn’t satisfied. ‘We’ve got to be better than that,’ he said.

COLCHESTER 3 OLDHAM 3

BEN STEVENSON, Callum Harriott (penalty) and Miles Welch-Hayes scored for Colchester, with Conor McAleny (two, one pen) and Carl Piergianni replying.

CRAWLEY 1 SOUTHEND 1

A LATE GOAL from Nathan Ralph, cancelling out Ashley Nadesan’s opener, gave Southend their first point in four games. The visitors’ manager Mark Molesley said: ‘The attitude was first-class.’

MORECAMBE 1 PORT VALE 0

AN Adam Phillips penalty gave Morecambe their third win in four games. The hosts’ manager Derek Adams said: ‘As we keep saying, possession doesn’t win you football matches, goals do.’

HARROGATE 1 BOLTON 2

A FIRST goal of the season for striker Eoin Doyle and an effort by Nathan Delfounesco ended Bolton’s 13-game run without a win, despite George Thomson’s reply for Harrogate.