Southampton Rangers 0 The dark side of Southampton Rangers surfaced again last night -- and not just when a floodlight failure left one corner of the Somerset Cricket Club ground without illumination for half an hour.

Two more Rangers men -- Craig Darrell and Kwame Tucker -- saw red, bringing the number of the team's players dismissed to four in three matches, and ensuring the only bright spot for them was the way they scrapped, in the legal sense of the word, to gain a point.

Darrell went as early as the 16th minute -- and deservedly so -- after appearing to land a retaliatory strike on Colts defender Nathan Samuels. The only surprise was that Samuels didn't go with him after his quite dreadful tackle, all studs bared, that had enraged the Rangers man was followed with some fisticuffs of his own.

Tucker's dismissal, coming as it did just seconds before the final whistle for a second bookable offence, had less impact on Rangers, but his reaction -- he had to be restrained by his own coaching staff -- will not have helped their cause.

As it was, Rangers will draw some credit for having held on for a point as Colts spurned a sackful of gift-wrapped chances to take all three when the game burst into life with the restoration of power to the six lights atop the cricket scorebox.

Moments after Kwame Tucker had failed to connect properly with a long free kick from the left which found him in space eight yards from goal, Colts enjoyed a spell of pressure when they should have netted three times.

First Keishon Smith dragged wide from eight yards, then Jerome Laws threaded his way into the penalty area before shooting across Randy Darrell but inches wide. Seconds later, in the 38th minute, Marvin Belboda did well to collect a ball from Smith. He cut inside, beating two men at the byline before slotting the ball across the face of the goal only to see Jason Raynor clear from under his own bar.

When Colts did get the ball in the net five minutes after the break -- Aljame Zuill following up after Darrell had parried Laws' shot -- the linesman's flag ruled it offside.

Somerset 1 H.Parish 1 Basement club Hamilton Parish showed they have plenty of stomach for the relegation fight by coming back from behind to earn a point at Somerset last night.

But even after after a fightback capped by Kumar Smith's spectacular second half equaliser, the Hot Peppers stay stranded three points adrift at the bottom of the First Division.

Trojans, chasing a win to go fourth, went ahead in the 26th minute with an opportunist effort by Curtis Grant.

Grant received the ball on the left hand touchline and as Parish 'keeper Cymande Davis strayed from his line, Grant curled a well-struck shot with the outside of his left foot which left both ball and the embarrassed 'keeper in the back of the net.

Davis committed another howler six minutes later when his mishit clearance went straight to Michael Brangman, but Brangman was taken by surprise and miscontrolled the ball, allowing Davis to redeem himself with a slide tackle.

Trojans enjoyed the best of the first half and should have doubled their lead when Brangman crossed to Steven Mendes, but he fired over from 10 yards out.

Trojans keeper Keenan Tucker was rarely troubled before the break and easily gathered Parish's best effort -- a wind-assisted 35 yarder by Chris Caisey.

Parish started the second half on the offensive and Sean Dill's 49th minute free kick cleared the bar by a foot.

Two minutes later Parish equalised in style when Irving Burgess set up Smith to hammer a fierce drive into the top right corner of the net.