Iain Vigurs then looked to have spurned a magnificent opportunity for the Highland side when Richard Brittain's corner arrived at his feet and he shot wide with the goal at his mercy, but a foul had been given.
In the 25th minute Lee Jarvis increased Ponty's lead with a penalty in front of the posts and minutes later Ponty struck again, Jarvis switching to the blind side to link with Matthew Lloyd, who let in Richard Field at the corner.
Mr Black had come around a corner, Sir Richard said, to find the line defective before the train started to leave the tracks.
The opening half was largely devoid of inspiration and often resembled a meaningless end-of-season encounter until Richard Chaplow's outswinging corner fell to Jones, who took one touch to control the ball and another to fire high into the net from six yards.
First, Richard Wood saw his downward header from David Bell's corner palmed away by the Dutch stopper, and then Irishman Bell had a shot turned over by De Vries' fingertips.
Castleford, who had taken the lead with a Craig Huby penalty, hit back on 22 minutes when teenage winger Richard Owen scooped up a pass to touch down in the corner.
But Mbu was first to strike, glancing an inswinging Scott McBride corner towards goal and, despite the efforts of Richard Walker who tried in vain to keep the ball out at the far post, the ball ended up in the back of the net.
Richard Fuld seems to be putting himself and Lehman Brothers into a corner.
The home side responded in style when Tomas O'Leary took advantage of poor defending by Richard Fussell to cleverly kick the ball through for Howlett to gather and score in the corner, O'Gara missing the conversion.
The visitors showed more attacking impetus at the start of the second period as right-back Richard Foster burst across field and down the left before his cross was nervously cleared out for a corner by Orlando Engelaar.
Richard Pacquette put the Sports ahead when he turned on the edge of the area and fired into the bottom corner.
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