Rugby Town won through to the next round of the Emirates FA Cup with three late goals after a very tough Extra Preliminary tie at Wolverhampton Casuals.
Valley struck three times in the final ten minutes of the game to seal a place in the next round, but the margin of victory did not reflect what was a relatively even affair.
Town's opening eleven included six players making their first competitive start for the club, although it was the hosts that had the better of the early exchanges.
Rhyce Brown's scuffed shot from close range after ten minutes was pushed behind for a corner by Valley keeper Paul Hathaway, and then Tom Cottam got in behind the right hand side of the Rugby defence only to see Hathaway out quickly to narrow the angle and ultimately execute a decent parried save.
Dan Summerfield's whipped-in cross represented the visitors first threatening moment at the other end, but unfortunately it was just beyond Town's spearhead Mikey Taylor.
Rugby slowly started to find their feet after this, and Trey Charles volleyed one wide after some neat interchange play on the left between Tayo Tucker and Hilton Arthur.
A further surging run into the box by Tucker ended with a low cross that was just cut out by a Casuals' defender, before the home side could easily have taken the lead when Brown helped a good chance wide after Connor Parker's initial effort had been blocked by his own team-mate.
The final opportunity of the opening forty-five fell to the Valley though, when Arthur's run into the box ended with a strike that tested Wolverhampton keeper Lucas Kibrya.
Town started the new period brightly too, and Charles was soon causing problems for the hosts with a powerful run from deep inside his own half culminating in an off-target strike.
Ryan Sahota had a shot blocked after the young midfielder had created himself an opening with particularly determined play on the edge of the penalty area.
The Casuals' best chance of the game then came when their captain James Pritchard's cross picked out fellow full-back Hayden Seymour at the far post, but the ex-Valley man saw his first time volley blocked by Hathaway and then the keeper was quickly back to his feet to deal with the follow-up effort from Seymour.
Cottam put one wide from distance, before the floodgates finally opened for Rugby and they punished their Midland League opponents with a quickfire treble.
Town's seventh debutant of the afternoon sub Ethan O'Toole was involved in all three goals, with the first coming on 83 minutes from his low corner from the left which appeared to get the slightest of touches from Damien Osoimoejiokhian at the near post before then somehow finding its way through to Charles at the back post to help home from a few yards out.
Charles made it two six minutes later when he ran onto O'Toole's forward pass to neatly steer the ball past the diving Kibrya and into the bottom right hand corner.
Town's third came in added-time, with O'Toole's tackle in the middle of the park releasing fellow replacement Harrison Nee, and he jinked past his marker in the box before applying an even better finish into the same corner as Charles's second strike.
Valley
Line-up: Hathaway; Summerfield, Osoimoejiokhian, Thomas, Rai; Mensah, Sahota (Fitzharris 90'+1); Charles, Arthur (Semahimbo 63'), Tucker (Nee 78'); Taylor (O'Toole 63'). Subs not used: Ahenkorah, Francis, Bukowski. Booked: Thomas.
