A gritty and determined performance by Forest Green Rovers ensured they took the points with a comfortable victory over FA Cup giant-killers Scarborough.
Yet the story could have been so different when, with just two minutes on the clock, Scott Rogers was adjudged to have brought down Mark Quayle in the penalty area but Quayle's spot-kick was saved by Rovers keeper Steve Perrin.
Just over ten minutes later, Forest Green went in front.
Denny Ingram's ball forward was flicked on by Neil Grayson and Alex Meechan's attempted volley deflected off a defender straight into Rogers' path and he headed the loose ball past Leigh Walker.
Seven minutes before the interval, Rovers' lead was increased. From a free kick, Alex Sykes laid the ball off for David Searle and his cross toward the back post found Grayson unmarked to lob the ball into the net.
Within five minutes of the restart, the game was effectively over. Martin Foster's pinpoint cross from the right wing caused the Scarborough defence all sorts of problems leaving Grayson to out-jump his marker and head the ball into the roof of the net.
Just 60 seconds later it became a rout. Darren Jones got in on the act skimming past an oncoming defender and sent over a cross which Rogers fired over the goal-line.