A youthful Wolves side comfortably won through to the next round of the Birmingham Senior Cup against Valley at Butlin Road.

The visiting academy prospects took a 15th minute lead through their skipper Lee Harkin, with further goals following in the second half from Dylan Scicluna and Aaron Keto-Diyawa easing them to victory, although Town had earlier missed out on the chance of equaliser when Ryan Seal saw his penalty-kick saved.

Ryan Sahota lined-up in midfield for Rugby to make his first team debut, with Madundo Semahimbo and Justin Marsden both given their first start in more than a month.

The game started quietly, and it was the hosts that fashioned the first chance of it on twelve minutes when Loyiso Recci headed a Luke English throw-in into the arms of Wolves keeper Jimmy Storer.

The visitors went ahead shortly after though, after Diyawa released Harkin down the left, who then cut inside to put in a shot that deflected off Recci before creeping into the bottom corner.

One-time Chinese Super League player Zhenyu He almost immediately added a second when he chased down a Matt Hill attempted clearance, but the ball bounced just wide of the post.

Another deflected effort - this time by Josh Esen - was then kept out by Hill, with He blazing a further effort wide after he had nipped in behind the busy Town defence.

Rugby's best opportunity of the first half came after a Seal and English interchange ended with a Seal through ball that was just beyond English, with Wolves ending the period on top as Sciculuna twice missing the target with his strikes and Hill comfortably gathering Michael Agboola's low shot.

The away side started the new half confidently again, and Dan Summerfield was soon clearing He's effort from the goal-line after the striker had rounded Hill. However the hosts were handed an unexpected lifeline when Semahimbo was fouled by Fil Mabete, but unlike four days previously at Eynesbury, Seal was unable to convert from the spot with Storer diving to his left to push the ball away.

Wolves's second came on 58 minutes from an excellently worked move, with Scicluna neatly finishing things off after an initial deft touch and surge from Harkin and an incisive pass by He.

Sub Fabian Reynolds was twice denied by good stops by Hill as the visitors looked to kick-on, and they eventually got reward for their dominance when Keto-Diyawa ran through a static Town defence before sending his shot through Hill's body to make it three.

Valley had two late chances for a consolation with substitute Aaron Sahota first pulling one wide and then after that the same player managed to test Storer with a further strike.

Both Sahotas brothers had been joined on the pitch by fellow Rugby youth teamers Jamie Basford, Ralf Callaway and Frankie Episcopo by the end of the game, with the contracted Charlie Evans putting in a full ninety minutes up-front in his first outing of the season.

Valley Line-up: Hill; Summerfield (Basford), Thomas, Recci (Aaron Sahota); English, Ahenkorah, Marsden (Episcopo), Ryan Sahota, Seal (Callaway); Semahimbo, Evans. Subs not used: None. Booked: English.

Wolves line-up: Storer, Kaleta, Keto-Diyawa, Bradbury, Agboola, Kandola, Scicluna, Hodnett, He, Harkin, Esen. Subs: Mabete, Clarke, Voice, Reynolds, Amos.