Keswick's first teams had mixed fortunes in their two home games.

The men had to come from behind to beat Didsbury Northern 4-2, but the Ladies lost 2-1 to a late, disputed goal against Penrith.

The men opened proceedings and did most of the early running against their Manchester visitors.

They earned a penalty corner after only two minutes which was blocked by the Didsbury keeper.

Luke Heap, Rob Cook and Ben Harrison’s constant running on to through balls from Paul Sloan and Clive Swanston forced the Didsbury keeper into making some important saves.

Without his efforts, the Keswick team could have been out of sight in the first 15 minutes.

It was very much against the run of play when Didsbury took the lead. That stoked-up Keswick who came back almost immediately with Rob Cook levelling the score.

Didsbury once again found a way through to retake the lead with one of their rare chances.

But, as before, Keswick responded almost right away with their second goal from Ben Harrison.

The Keswick defence then put up the shutters with Shaun Wilson and Chris Matear blocking every attempt from the opposition.

With good distribution of the ball to Mark Bowen and Mark Proctor, the home side was able to press deep into the Didsbury half.

Their pressure paid off as Heap and Bowen put them ahead 4-2, and although Didsbury did rally in the final five minutes, the Keswick defence was resolute.

Keeper Gary Tupper only had a couple of saves to make as Keswick saw out the win.

The Ladies followed against Penrith in what proved to be an end-to-end battle which saw both defences working hard to keep the opposition at bay.

Emma Harrison and Sarah Scott, of Keswick, had to work hard to keep Penrith’s young wingers at bay.

Amy Rush and Gayle Laverty-Fennel marshalled the middle but at the break it as still 0-0.

In the second half, there were chances for both sides, with Katie Fisher, Katherine Hadfield and Saorise Jennings-Adams running strongly in mid-field to set-up chances for Xanthe Sparke, Anne-Marie Cowperthwaite and Andrea Kellet.

It was Penrith who took the lead with about ten minutes to play but Keswick responded quickly.

Some well-worked attacks of their own were often instigated by Amy Rush making several telling runs through the Penrith ranks to set-up chances.

Andrea Kellet converted one of these runs with the equaliser and it seemed that the game would end 1-1.

But, with virtually the last touch of the game, Penrith got the winner, with the Keswick defence adamant the ball had come off a Penrith foot.