BOYS’ Town were spared a lesson in humility from visitors Humble Lion after Nicholas McMorris’s injury time goal earned them a come-from-behind 2-2 draw in their Red Stripe Premier League football encounter at Collie Smith Drive yesterday.

The home side twice equalised after the visitors struck through a Carlington Smith goal which pushed them ahead in the 19th minute.

Boys’ Town equalised six minutes after the restart after a corner pass, which first bounded in front of goal, was booted in by Wayne Ellis in the 51st.

The goal seemed to be the revival the ‘Red Brigade’ needed after a first half which ended in dullness.

Dean Thompson’s frustration was evident a minute later when he fell and thumped the ground after a clear shot he took went just wide of the left post.

Shane Edwards then squandered a glorious chance to put the hosts 2-1 up when in his eagerness to score in the dying minutes after Philmore Crumbie ran out of goal trying to stop a pass, instead of taking the time to carefully kick the ball into the net, booted it too hard and high over the cross bar.

Edwards would live to rue his zeal a moment later when Humble Lion went 2-1 up through an expert shot taken by substitute Denzil Watson.

Humble Lion must have been counting their three points when out of nowhere Nicholas McMorris sent the Collie Smith crowd into a frenzy with his goal just before the final whistle.

Humble Lion’s coach Lenworth Hyde was visibly annoyed with the result which left the Clarendon-based team on 14 points, still one behind Boys’ Town on 15.

“Disappointed in the result. I think we should have won the game, but such is the game. They (players) have to learn the rudiments of the game and how to think out situations because we can’t give up a goal with one minute to go,” Hyde said.

“We just let down the thing and I’m very disappointed with the result, but I think they showed character,” he added.

Boys’ Town’s coach Andrew Price also believed his boys showed character.

“We are not playing well by any stretch of the imagination, but we are fighting and we are showing determination. It shows the depth of our game that we can come here against a very competitive Humble Lion team, get opportunities and if we had utilised those opportunities we would have got a much better result, but the team showed a lot of character today (yesterday) to come from behind not once but twice,” Price said.