Sutton Coldfield Town 3 Stourbridge 3 (Stourbridge win 4-2 on penalties)

MUCH-changed Stourbridge progressed on penalties after a thriller involving six goals, a red card and the woodwork being whacked three times.

After an uneventful opening quarter of an hour, Sutton's Danny O'Callaghan fired a sign of things to come by rattling the angle of post and bar from 20-plus yards.

Former Glassboys midfielder Sean Geddes almost caught out debutant keeper Ash Malhotra with a floated effort but from nowhere, the visitors struck twice in as many minutes.

Brandon Hague was involved in both, flicking on for Jordan Archer to be granted the freedom to lash home from close range before holding up for Drew Canavan to lash between the legs of home keeper James Wren.

Stour looked likely to score with every attack but Sutton grabbed a lifeline after half an hour when Cameron Gayle finished past a hesitant Malhotra following good work from Josh Cooke.

And there was nothing Malhotra could have done about the leveller as Jake Healey fired an instinctive dipping dive inside the near post from the edge of the box.

Geddes was sent off for lashing out at Archer seconds after the restart but O'Callaghan defied the disadvantage to net a dipping half volley to put Sutton ahead six minutes before the break.

Stuart Pierpoint was the next to pull off the spectacular, levelling five minutes after the restart with a ferocious volley after Canavan's corner had been flicked on.

Gary Hackett's men attacked at will from there but O'Callaghan single-handedly kept them on their toes with efforts from all angles, pelting the inside of the post before Conor Gator repeated the trick at the other end.

The tie went straight to a penalty shoot-out with Stour progressing 4-2 courtesy of efforts from Pierpoint, Canavan, Jake Heath and Hague. Malhotra saved two of Sutton's four efforts.

Stourbridge travel to Barwell in round two.