It was all-square at Butlin Road, with the draw probably the fairest conclusion to a typically tight cup tie.

Rugby’s starting line-up saw three changes from the previous game, with Alex Austin, Jamie Towers and Richard Blythe all returning to the side in place of Marcel Simpson, Ben George and James Jepson.

Towers should have given them the lead on 16 minutes, but he could only lift Kolodynski’s pull back over the bar from close range, with Will Grocott, Mason Rowley and Seb Lake-Gaskin also having chances to open the scoring.

Rowley was on-guard at the other end to deny the visitors their best opportunity of the opening exchanges, when he headed a dipping Lee Butler free-kick away from his own line, but it was another Butler set-piece that generated the game’s first goal when Nathan Waite flicked on his corner for Jermaine Johnson to help the ball in from six yards.

Valley were soon on level terms though, when Towers atoned for his earlier miss by powering home Sam Youngs’s cross to the far post just after the restart.

The remainder of the game lacked any real quality and clear cut goalscoring opportunities, with Town too often resorting to the long ball option and rarely testing Scholars’ keeper John Bateman as a result.

Grocott and substitute Justin Marsden both sent efforts high of the target, with the best chance of the second period coming with just three minutes remaining when Chasetown’s Jack Lees somehow helped Dexter Ravenhill’s cross over the bar from a great position.

Valley line-up: Bennion; Austin, Kelly, Rowley, Gudger; Towers (Bishop), Youngs (Jepson), Grocott, Blythe; Kolodynski, Lake-Gaskin (Marsden). Subs not used: Simpson, Weale, George. Booked: Gudger, Austin.

Chasetown line-up: Bateman, Johnson, Ravenhill, Slater, Dallison, Downes, Butler, Parsons, Edwards, Waite, Davies. Subs: Evans, Robinson, Lees, Brown, McDonald, Haynes, Pond.