FA CUP PRELIMINARY ROUND Sherbourne Town 3 Liskeard Athletic 2 Liskeard's run in the FA Cup came to an inglorious end at the Terrace Playing Fields where they were made to pay for not killing off a side that were there for the taking. 'We're disappointed with the result because we played some great, fluent passing football, especially early on, and we had the game in the bag,' said a disappointed player/assistant manager Lee Harvey afterwards. Having drawn 3-3 in a pre-season friendly at Sherborne, the Blues knew what to expect from their Western League First Division hosts and seemed to plan accordingly. With Harvey and Leon Hapgood cheerfully running amock up front, the opening goal of the game duly went to Liskeard in the 14th minute. Hapgood headed back David Woodfield's cross back into the path of James Miller who shot the ball home from 10 yards. This should have been the catalyst for further goals but Woodfield, Miller and Ian Down all missed chances to increase Liskeard's lead and, as often happens in football, this came back to haunt them in a traumatic last 17 minutes of the game. Following a rare sortie upfield Sherborne shocked Liskeard by levelling in the 73rd minute, Mark Caines firing home from 18 yards. Worse came five minutes later when, after Dean Ritchie had headed the ball home at the far post, Liskeard found themselves behind. Former Town player Ben Wood restored parity in the 82nd minute when he calmly played the ball into the vacant home goal after Sherborne goalkeeper Ashley Knibbs had only flapped the ball in Woods' direction. With three minutes to go, and with a replay looking increasingly likely, the hammer blow arrived. From out of nothing Caines picked up a loose ball and promptly sent a 25-yard screamer into the Liskeard net for the winner. Although the Lux Park contingent might take a crumb of comfort from the fact that this was in the FA Cup and not the league, Harvey was not quite so ready to forgive and forget. 'We created enough chances to be out of sight by half time but didn't take them and unfortunately we came out a different side in the second half and the game changed completely. 'We seemed to lose shape, especially in midfield and defence, and to rub it in Sherborne took just about the only decent chances they had. 'That's football though, and we'll just have to bounce back now,' concluded Harvey.