Chasetown looked confident from their midweek victory over Loughborough Dynamo and even though they were without hat-trick hero Paul Sullivan, his replacement Gary Hay was keen to make up for lost time, starting his first game since mid-January.

Inside the first few minutes, Hay tried his luck from distance but visiting keeper Miles Fenty was equal to the effort, clinging on in front of his body.

An opening goal for The Scholars was no surprise and it came after 12 minutes. Nick Wellecomme raced onto a superb throughball from midfield and, as Fenty advanced, drove a low shot which the Brigg keeper got down well to save but only pushed the ball out as far as Lee Butler who slid the ball right-footed beyond the keeper inside his right-hand post for Butler’s first goal for the senior side.

The visiting number one was by far the busier keeper and Fenty had to save well to keep out a bullet header from Jack Farmer as the home side took control of the game.

Nick Wellecomme was lively throughout the game and did everything but score, heading narrowly over the bar just before the half-time interval.
Dave Bate drove a shot over narrowly over the bar at the start of the second half as Craig Harris’ men looked to force home their advantage.

It wasn’t a classic game of football but Brigg Town hardly troubled Ryan Price in the Chase goal, on his way to back-to-back clean sheets in the league for the first time this season.

Man of the match Butler was substituted to a standing ovation from the home fans, and it was his replacement, another graduate of the Chasetown Scholarship that sealed the three points eleven minutes from time. Wellecomme got his second assist of the afternoon, teeing up Andy Westwood who thumped a shot into the roof of the net from outside the penalty area.

Bate flashed another shot narrowly off target as Chasetown moved into the top half of the league table just four points off the top 7 but eleven shy of the play-off places.

Chasetown: Price, Farmer, Jackson, Slater, Bate, Tesfa Robinson, Butler (Westwood, 75 mins), Bragoli, Wellecomme (Clarke-O’Connell, 89 mins), Hay (Purkiss, 68 mins), Gould

Other subs: Branch, Teesdale (not used)