ANTONY Sweeney was handed a recall to the Hartlepool United side as, as expected, three players weren't fit for the starting XI through injury.
James Brown and Leon McSweeney were absent, but Ritchie Jones was named on the bench.
Kettering, bossed by ex-Pools midfielder Mark Cooper, fielded loan striker Anthony Elding, a one-time Pools target.
HARTLEPOOL UNITED: Flinders, Austin, Collins, Liddle, Hartley; Larkin, Humphreys, Sweeney, Monkhouse; Boyd, Behan. Subs: Cook (gk), Clark, Jones, Haslam, Fredriksen, Greulich, Bjornsson.
KETTERING TOWN: Harper; Eaden, Roper, Dempster, Taylor; Green, Noubissie, Geohaghon, Heslop; Ashikodi, Elding. Subs: Wrack, Spencer, Marna, Cooper (gk), Boucaud, Thomas.
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