It was a tale of two Reids at the Newport Stadium as the Exiles’ Craig Reid opened the scoring early on before Weymouth’s Jake Reid, who replaced the injured Josh Klein-Davies just past the half-hour mark, equalised in the second period.

Craig Reid would have ended the game the happier of the two men though, had his first-half penalty not been saved by visiting keeper Ryan Harrison.

Weymouth made two changes from the 2-1 defeat to Thurrock at the weekend with ex-skipper Matt Bound, on his return to the club, and Joe Arnold coming in for Ian Hutchinson and Matt Townley, who both dropped to the bench.

The Terras though, found themselves under immediate pressure in South Wales and went a goal behind in only the second minute.

Martin Slocombe was penalised on the right flank and Kevin Cooper sent his free-kick into the six-yard area where Craig Reid was on hand to steer the ball home.

Within a couple of minutes Craig Reid had a great chance to add a second but fired wide from a good position.

At this stage it was one-way traffic with the home side bossing proceedings and the Terras relying on trying to break from defence.

One such counter attack saw Slocombe play a long ball over the heads of the home defence for Klein-Davies to chase.

However, Wayne Turk was able to clear the danger as Aaron Cook blocked the Weymouth man’s run.

The visitors’ best chance to level came in the 25th minute when Gary Warren made a mess of a clearance, allowing Klein-Davies to run on goal only for the Terras’ striker to miss the target from 10 yards.

Newport continued to press but without causing Weymouth too many problems and it was Andy Harris who dug out the next meaningful shot but his effort went wide.

With 40 minutes on the clock Sam Foley found space inside the Terras’ box to latch on to a through ball from Scott Rogers but then failed to find the target.

An even better opportunity arrived on the stroke of half-time as County won a penalty for an apparent handball offence that was only spotted by the referee’s assistant.

Harrison though, proved up to the challenge and dived to his left to push Craig Reid’s effort to safety.

Newport started the second half brightly as Harrison was forced to steer a stinging shot from Sam Deering over the crossbar and hold on to a drive from Craig Reid.

A 54th minute cross from Paul Cochlin caused problems in the visitors’ defence and was only dealt with when Slocombe volleyed Cooper’s shot off the goal-line.

Although Newport were continuing to push forward they were struggling to cause the Terras’ defence any serious problems and were restricted to shooting from distance or from one of the many free-kicks awarded in their favour.

Weymouth stunned the home crowd with an equaliser in the 71st minute. Andy Caton collected the ball in midfield and released Jake Reid who rifled home from 18 yards.

Within a minute County thought they had regained the lead but substitute Dave Gilroy’s shot through a crowded penalty area was cleared off the line by the alert Slocombe.

Shortly after, Jake Reid had a good chance to put Weymouth in front but he was forced to hurry his shot which went too high The Terras were afforded a let off deep into stoppage time when Foley headed ex-Magpie Charlie Henry’s cross wide with the goal at his mercy.

But this left the away side with a share of the points that their dogged determination surely deserved.