Chasetown edged ahead at the end of a good spell of attacking football, seven minutes before half time. Nick Wellecomme ran over a free-kick which completely wrong-footed goalkeeper Michael Duggan and Lee Butler curled a beautiful free-kick into the keeper's opposite corner.

Wellecomme went close to getting his head on a Richard Davies cross but Duggan was commanding and punched clear.

Just before the interval, Wellecomme teed up Butler whose shot on the turn skidded along the ground and Duggan clung on well.

At the start of the second half, the visitors took control of the game and levelled just short of the hour when Andy Tidswell steered home a cross past Chase keeper John Bateman.

Tidswell tested Bateman at the start of the second half as the Lincolnshire side started the second half strongly.

Duggan remained in control in the Spalding goal, too, punching the ball off the head of Lee Parsons from a Butler cross, just prior to goalscorer Butler hobbling out of the action with an injury.

Both sides had spells of possession but it was Chasetown who would say they had the better chances to win the game. Substitute Danny Edwards dragged a shot well wide of the post from the edge of the area and a late free-kick right on the edge of the penalty area was fired over the wall but also over the bar from Wellecomme.

Chasetown: Bateman, Johnson, Haynes, Slater, Miles, Downes, Butler (Edwards, 53 mins), Parsons, Wellecomme, Waite (McDonald, 80 mins), Davies (Theo Robinson, 85 mins)

Other subs: Evans, Lees (not used)