Gillingham Reserves 2 QPR Reserves 2

Gillingham reserves came from two goals behind to draw with QPR at Priestfield on Wednesday afternoon.

Manager Mark Stimson named a young side for the clash and included three trialists.

One of those trialists, Australian Lachlan Cahill got the fight-back under way with a 25-yard effort, and promising youth player Luke Rooney bagged the equaliser.

Cahill, whose previous club was Australian out-fit Wollongong Wolves, was joined in the team by experienced midfielder Micah Hyde and former Northampton and current Fisher defender Joe Howe.

Making a welcome return from a three-month absence with a foot injury was winger Dennis Oli – a former R’s trainee. He managed 76 minutes of the game.

Stimson named a number of youth players in the side and only Alan Julian, Leigh Mills, Andy Pugh and Oli belonged to the senior Gills squad.

The visitors went two goals ahead with strikes from on-loan Fiorentina man Samuel DiCarmine and Argentinean Emmanal Ledesma in the first-half.

Cahill had hit the post before scoring with a stunning long range free-kick and soon after the scores were level on 70 minutes, when Lewis picked up a stray pass and fed Rooney to score.

Gills:Julian, Howe, Bartrum, Lewis, Mills, Essam, Cahill, Hyde, Pugh, Oli (Murphy 76mins), Rooney (Simpson 76mins). Subs not used: Rance, Geering, Quinn.