Aylesbury secured their sixth point of the season in their long overdue first match of the new decade, but it could and probably should have been all three for the ?Oranges? after they were pegged back from a winning position.
Two goals from top-scorer Ashley Harewood had given the travelling Ducks a well deserved cushion in the match with 55 minutes gone only for Bedworth to pull level with two goals in a mad 90-second spell.
Looking eager to get back to business, Aylesbury?s work rate and commitment could not be faulted throughout as they hassled and harried their opponents and were much the better side for most of the opening period, with Keith Newby and Enzo Silvestri having early efforts come to nothing.
Kevin Ayodele, deployed on the left-wing, saw an effort rise over the bar on 11 minutes having cut inside his marker and been allowed a good advantage by referee Mr Stretton.
Silvestri fired an effort wide of goal two minutes later after James Nash, another player to have been given a new role in the team and lining up at left-back, had played the ball inside two him. The same player then completely miscued an effort inside the area after a corner-kick.
It had been an opening quarter of calm control for Aylesbury, but Bedworth finally fashioned their first chance on 24 minutes through the good work of Daniel Gaunt who broke free before flashing a shot across the face of goal.
Bedworth then had the best chance of the match to that point when a ball into the box found Greenway who got ahead of his marker but could only head over the bar.
The Ducks got their reward for their hard work on 28 minutes as they took the lead. A through ball was cut out but squirmed kindly into the path of Harewood a full 25-yards out and he had no hesitation in hitting a first-time low drive which arrowed beautifully into the bottom corner. 1-0 Aylesbury
Aylesbury had to work hard to protect their lead as Bedworth improved as the half went by, but on the whole Pat Sappleton and Matt Ansell were rock solid at the back.
Jai Stanley tried an ambitious long range effort which rolled well wide, before Greenway wasted another good chance by placing his header wide from a free-kick when, once again, he should have at least tested Jack Sillitoe.
It wasn?t long before that happened, as Sillitoe was tested to the extreme three minutes later when a misplaced back-header in defence fell for Jamie Lenton who headed goalwards from five-yards only to be thwarted by Sillitoe?s fine tip wide.
There was some evidence of Aylesbury stabilising as they ended the half on the attack, Tyrone Taylor and Newby linking up well before the latter rounded off a pleasing first period with a shot straight at Kemp.
Half-time: Bedworth 0-1 Aylesbury
Bedworth made a double substitution at half-time in an effort to inject some energy into what had been a pretty poor first half showing for them, with Alex Orton and Matt Lee entering the fray on the flanks.
It appeared to be having the desired effect as the Greenbacks began brightly and they should have been level when the ball was squared to Ramsay ten-yards from goal but he fluffed his lines and shot straight at Sillitoe.
It was to be a costly miss for Bedworth as Aylesbury soon went down the other end and doubled their score. Taylor played a lovely ball into Harewood who somehow found a shooting position from the byline before crashing a shot in off Kemp at the near post. 2-0 Aylesbury
The home side thought they?d quickly got themselves back into the game when Ramsay rolled into the empty net having worked his way around Sillitoe, but the offside flag had been raised some time before and the effort was chalked off.
Instead, the Ducks very nearly made it three as they caught Bedworth out with a swift move that saw Harewood lay the ball into the path of Ayodele who swept an instant low shot just wide of Kemp?s goal.
Bedworth?s next chance fell to Ashley Wilks, and was another decent one. Ramsay?s cross found the former Nuneaton Griff player free at the back stick but all he could do was turn the ball wide.
On 69 minutes the home side did pull a goal back. A deep cross in came to Gaunt who went down in the area under challenge. Although it was the faintest of contact from the Aylesbury player, the referee deemed it enough to point to the spot, and Jai Stanley stepped up to emphatically score his first Greenbacks goal since returning from Shepshed Dynamo. 1-2
Aylesbury have already surrendered a potentially match-winning lead five times this season, so the travelling Ducks fans looked on with grim faces as the expected capitulation duly unfolded before their eyes.
The equalising second goal arrived just ninety seconds later. Aylesbury?s nemesis of set-pieces reared its ugly head again as the delivery into the box wasn?t properly dealt with and Wilks was on hand to stab home the loose ball. 2-2
In between the two goals the Ducks had suffered a blow with Harewood pulling up with an apparent muscle strain, to be replaced by new signing Joel McCormick and Aylesbury can only hope their top-scorer?s injury isn?t too serious.
Both sides had chances to take the win in the final fifteen minutes, as the match could have gone either way.
Sappleton flicked a header just over the bar on 77 minutes, before Tyrone Taylor became the second striker to limp out of the game and be replaced by Darren Woolard, although his symptoms were seemingly no more than cramp.
Wilks was proving a menace since moving to a more attacking role since the interval, and he went close again late on as the ball dropped to him but he put his shot wide with only Sillitoe to beat.
Aylesbury were visibly tiring in the final stages, and Tony Joyce made another chance with Jordan Oxley coming on for Ayodele for the last five minutes.
The Ducks it was who came closest to grabbing a winner as Kemp, questionable for the way he conceded the second, fully redeemed himself with a world class stop to tip wide Newby?s well executed curling shot which looked only to be heading for the top corner.
It would have been justified had that gone in just for the sheer commitment Aylesbury displayed all afternoon, and their disappointment at having taken just a point from the game was clear to see at the final whistle but, once more, a point is better than nothing.
