SIX goals and two red cards were shared between Stourbridge and Bromsgrove Sporting in a pulsating Southern League Premier Division Central encounter.
Bromsgrove took a two-goal and one-man advantage into the interval via goals from Luke Benbow and Jordan Lyden along with the hosts' Aksum White being given his marching orders.
However, Jai Verma and Jenson Sumnall brought the Glassboys level in the West Midlands derby while a red card for Aaron Roberts left the teams with 10 players apiece.
Sporting retook the lead through a Kobe Hall penalty but the home side were to have the final say in the 3-3 draw last Saturday as ex-Sporting captain Luke Rowe found the net from inside the area.
The 32nd minute at the War Memorial Athletic Ground saw Zidan Sutherland, one of six former Sporting players in the Stourbridge starting line-up, put a header wide from a great position.
Moments later another former Bromsgrove player White was sent for an early bath after a last-man challenge on Billy Shaw.
The resultant free-kick, which was taken by Benbow, looped into the goal courtesy of a hefty deflection off the Stourbridge wall.
The lead was doubled on the stroke of half-time as Josh Ezewele surged into the box and found Benbow who held the ball up and allowed Lyden to thump it home from close range.
Despite the two-goal deficit Stourbridge came out after the break all guns blazing with one of the former Sporting players Joe Hull hitting the woodwork with a header in the 49th minute.
A minute later Roberts was shown red for another last-man offence, this time on Aaron Bishop and once again it was a case of a sending-off being followed by a goal as the subsequent free-kick saw the ball laid off to Verma who found the net with a sensational strike from over 30 yards out.
The leveller came in the 71st minute as Sumnall diverted the ball home with an accurate header.
Shaw won another pivotal set-piece opportunity for Bromsgrove with 15 minutes of normal time remaining when he was brought down in the penalty area.
Substitute Hall stepped up to take it, hammering the ball down the middle of the goal.
The game's sixth and final goal aptly came from a former Bromsgrove player as Rowe netted from around 10 yards out to send the home fans into scenes of rapturous celebration in a crowd of 949.
After Tuesday's game at Banbury United (7.45pm), Sporting host Kettering Town on Saturday (3pm) and Quorn next Tuesday (7.45pm).
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