Nisbit opened the scoring after 27 minutes when he curled in a free kick but Swankie soon equalised just 3 minutes later.

Into the second half and a foul on Mark Whatley wasn’t given yet a foul committed by Omar Kader was. Raith took the free kick and launched in deep into the Arbroath box where Nisbit smashed home his second of the game in the 50th minute.

However substitute Ryan Wallace fired home from close range in the 77th minute to make it 2-2.

Arbroath maintain their 12 point gap at the top of League One with Forfar Athletic now ahead of Raith Rovers with only two games to play.

1 – Darren Jamieson
2 – Jason Thomson (McKenna 12)
3 – Colin Hamilton
4 – Ricky Little
5 – Thomas O’Brien
6 – Mark Whatley (c)
7 – Omar Kader
8 – David Gold
9 – Steven Doris (Wallace 62)
10 – Gavin Swankie
11 – Danny Denholm

Arbroath substitutes

12 – Greig Spence
14 – Ryan Wallace – 9; 62nd
15 – Ryan McCord – 16; 68th
16 – Michael McKenna – 2; 12 (McCord 68)
17 – Luke Donnelly
18 – Bobby Linn
21 – Darren Hill (GK)

Goals – Swankie 30, Wallace 77

Yellow Cards – Swankie 66, Whatley 69, McCord 84

Raith Rovers

17 – Dean Lyness
18 – David McKay
4 – Iain Davidson
6 – Kyle Benedictus (c)
3 – Calum Crane
12 – Ross Matthews
24 – Jamie Barjonas
26 – Craig McGuffie
15 – Kevin Nisbit
9 – Liam Buchanan (Duggan 74)
30 – James Gullan

Substitutes;

7 – Chris Duggan – 15; 74th
19 – James Berry
20 – Jamie Watson
28 – Dylan Tait

Goals – Nisbit 27, 51

Yellow Card – Barjonas 71

Attendance; 932

Officials;

Referee – Alan Newlands
Assistant Referee 1 – Andrew McWilliam
Assistant Referee 2 – David Ingram
Fourth Official – Mike Roncone

C’mon the Lichties