Chasetown made it four home wins in a row on a very wet Staffordshire evening.

Chasetown had the ball in the net after five minutes but Peter Till’s strike was ruled out for an earlier offside.

It took five minutes more for the Scholars to open the scoring. Mitch Piggon flicked into the path of James Dance who fired home from 3 yards out.

Piggon could have made it 2.0 before the break but although his shot beat Jake Steggles it narrowly cleared the crossbar.

In the 63rd minute, Dance almost stunned the home faithful with a speculative effort from 50 yards which Steggles had to scurry back to tip over the bar.

Carlton had plenty of early second half possession but failed to trouble Chase keeper Curtis Pond.