Wokingham & Emmbrook 0 Thornbury Town 1

CRAIG LANCASTLE'S strike sent Thornbury Town into the first round proper of the FA Vase, writes Mark Franklin.

The Thorns will face another away trip next month at Downton from the Wessex League.

Earlier, at Wokingham & Emmbrook, Thornbury started to get their passing game going, creating a string of corners which again didn’t come to anything – in fact the first effort of the game was halfway through the half when Brandon Benjamin shot wide.

Thornbury were now playing the better football but the best chance of the half fell to the Wokingham No.9 who dragged his shot wide after the defence got caught with the ball.

The tail end of the half saw Kurtis Parkin in the Thornbury goal called upon more regularly but seldom really troubled with a free header from a free-kick going over.

At the break Mark Viner went off injured and Jacob Farthing took his place with a tactical switch seeing Rhys Hodgson replace Jim Brock out wide

Luke Franklin and Hodgson began creating openings down the left with Lancastle firing straight at the keeper, Hodgson, Bennett and Franklin having shots deflected and Benjamin heading over.

With a welcome drinks break on 75 minutes and extra-time and penalties looming, Thornbury knew that one last sustained period of pressure could see them over the line

With 10 minutes of normal time to go Toby Bennett found Harry Brock who crossed for leading scorer Lancastle to side-foot the ball past the keeper.

Star Man: Joe Guest.