Kempston and Ware's last league games were both against Hadley, Rovers losing 4-1 last Saturday before Ware managed a 2-0 win against the Bricks on Tuesday.

In front of an impressive crowd of 168, Ware started the better of the two teams, with a chance in the first minute, Harry Riley in the Rovers defence making an excellent tackle from close range.

Riley was soon forced off through an ankle injury, being replaced by Perry Ronayne in the heart of defence.

The visitors got a deserved lead on 14 minutes, a dangerous cross from Freddy Moncur on the left finding the head of captain Leigh Rose to glance a header into the corner.

Rovers grew into the game but a flurry of corners from Ware caused the hosts problems, George Rose in the Kempston net making excellent saves to keep it at 1-0.

Just over the half hour mark and it was level, the second phase of a corner for Rovers started with Harry Stratton passing out to Ben Stevens on the left wing before his excellent low cross found Seb Simpson in space in the box, firing home into the bottom corner.

The scores only stayed level for five minutes, a somewhat fortuitous goal with Marcus Milner's low shot taking a number of deflections before looping over Rose into the net.

The Walnuts had a great chance to equalise on the hour mark, top scorer Ben Baker finding space on the right before he played an inch perfect pass across the six yard box to James Hatch, but the striker couldn't get the correct contact and fired over.

The game was resulting in possession v counter, Rovers knocking on the door, this time through Magloire Muyembe but the midfielder's drive beat the far post.

The hosts had the ball in the net in the 85th minute through Ben Baker, but the assistant had his flag up to deny an arguably deserved equaliser.

A good win on the road for Ware but Kempston will take many positives from an impressive performance.