The visitors were back to what they do best as their passing style and lightening attacking raids gained rich rewards with two goal captain Andy Penny leading by example writes Russell Brown.

On a morning where the changeable weather had the Easter Monday crowd alternating between seeking cover from the wintry showers or donning their sunglasses, Chasetown were much more decisive as they looked to put their goal less showing against Dunstable behind them.

With Dean Perrow and Danny Smith leading a pacy, two pronged attack from the start, Swifts survived the opening exchanges thanks to a timely tackle from Adam Robinson who denied Perrow at the last second. The woodwork was then to be the home sides savour as Smith left the defence in his shadow to race onto a through ball and unselfishly square for Perrow to side foot the ball past Chris Jay only to see it cannon off the upright and bounce straight back into the keepers arms.

Perrow did have the ball in the Swifts net in the 15th minute as his persistence had allowed him to recover after being dragged down in the area. The striker still managed to prod the loose ball past Jay only for the celebrations to be ended by the assistant’s raised flag.

Stourport’s first threat came from Peter Wood who struck a fine long range shot that keeper Lee Evans had to help over the bar. From the two corners that resulted from that chance, Wood was unlucky to see his drilled shot fly across the face of the Chasetown goal, needing just a touch to put the home side ahead.

However, in the 39th minute Chasetown made the breakthrough and from a corner of their own, it was Lucan Spittle who celebrated his first goal for the club when he met Nick Hawkins corner with a superbly timed header from ten yards out to leave Jay stranded.

Two goals in four minutes effectively handed the game to the visitors. In the 51st minute, Hawkins initial shot was blocked and the ball ran kindly for Penny to pick up and the defender raced forward to smash an unstoppable shot past Jay as the Stourport defenders vainly appealed for an offside decision.

Penny doubled his goal count in the 55th minute as, from another set piece from Hawkins, his looping header dropped over the head of Jay to give Chasetown a 3-0 lead.

With the game seemingly in the bag, Chasetown brought off the injured Smith to give Jermaine Gordon a chance to take on the visitors defence, but when Will Gayton pulled a goal back in the 73rd minute with a fantastic long range shot on the run that flashed over Evans in the Chasetown goal, that was to provide the Scholars with a nervy ten minutes.

Perrow was again denied a deserved goal by the post as he chased down a long ball forward to beat the keeper to the ball, but the striker could not believe his luck as his effort slammed against the woodwork for a second time.

Gordon was causing all sorts of problems with his physical presence and should have celebrated his opening goal in Blues colours, somehow slicing the ball wide of the post from close range, but in stoppage time the big striker finally grabbed the goal he so desperately wanted as he took full advantage of Jay’s mistake in dealing with another long ball forward to touch the ball past the hopelessly stranded youngster and walk the ball into an unguarded net in the 93rd minute.

Chasetown: Evans, Aulton, M Branch, Spittle, Penny, J. Williams, Walters (Steane), J Branch, D Smith (Gordon), Perrow, Hawkins

Other Subs: Harris, Woodvine, Miller (not used)