Bala Town 1 Penybont 0

FULL TIME

Bala were seemingly heading to a goalless draw in their final home match of the JD Cymru Premier campaign after an evenly contested affair at Maes Tegid.

But two minutes into stoppage time, Nathan Peate rose highest to head home a corner for the winner for the Lakesiders.

It wasn’t the prettiest of games but Colin Caton’s men found a way to get the job done despite surviving a few scares.

Bala shaped up as the more dangerous team early on with Andrew Burns whipping in a peach of a ball into the danger area, but Will Evans just couldn’t reach it.

Moments later, Sean Smith delivered another dangerous cross from the left, but Peate’s header wasn’t powerful enough to beat keeper Ashley Morris.

At the other end, the visitors’ first real opening came on 20 minutes, Alex Ramsay called into action to gather Nathan Wood’s shot.

His opposite number Ashley Morris pulled off a wonder save on 27 minutes, somehow tipping over a fierce volley from Steven Leslie , then it was Ramsay’s turn again to demonstrate his prowess, initially wrongfooted by Ashley Evans’ swerving volley but recovering well to make a great save.

Danger man Chris Venables nearly netted his customary goal on 39 minutes, when he received the ball inside the box to turn on the half volley, but his effort was wayward.

Correia then latched on to another Bala free kick but couldn’t get enough power in his header to trouble Morris before the ref blew for half time.

Correia and Will Evans were both given lengthy treatments after picking up knocks before returning to the pitch early in the second half as both sides strived for the breakthrough goal.

Penybont thought they had it on 56 minutes but Peate defended brilliantly to head away an inviting cross for a corner.

Bala’s Sean Smith was then injured but was soon back up and running to pull off a brilliant goal line clearance to keep it at 0-0.

After surviving a couple of scares and with the 90 minutes nearly up Colin Caton’s men pushed for the winner, Venables connecting with Andrew Burns’ cross but failing to get his header on target.

But there was still time for Peate to grab the headlines and send Penybont home pointless.

Bala: Alex Ramsay, Sean Smith, Nathan Peate, Shaun Kelly, Andrew Burns, Steve Leslie, Liam Davies, Danny Gosset, Raul Correia, Will Evans, Chris Venables. Subs: Lasanna Mendes, Anthony Stephens, Antony Kay, Kieran Smith, Harri Lloyd