BASINGSTOKE Town moved into the last eight of the Hampshire Senior Cup thanks to a narrow1-0 win a very spirited visiting Cowes Sports side.

A much changed Dragons side, which saw goalkeeper Alex Tokarczyk, Marcus Johnson-Schuster, Matt Partridge, David Ray, Sam Deadfield, Charlie Kennedy, Romone Rose and Nana Owusu were all rested.

Only the Atkinson twins Robert and Michael, along with Joe Gater remained in the starting line-up.

Kieren Greene took over the goalkeeping gloves and kept a clean sheet, while there was a debut for Academy player Harrison Shade and Mark Hastings was also given a start.

the front line saw the return of Aaron Jarvis from injury to link up with George Hallahan and Aaron Redford.

The other two subs on Saturday, George Bennett and Richie Whittingham were also given a start.

It got off to great start for the home side as after seven minutes Jarvis was fouled in the penalty area.

Redford's spot kick was pushed away by Cowes goalie Edd Hatt and Jarvis scored the rebound from an acute angle.

After this there was not a lot to chose between the teams and Jason Malcolmson fired just wide the visitors from an Harry Dye.

Then just before the break, Hatt made a good save to deny Jarvis one-on-one.

After the break, the home side still found it hard to carve out any good scoring opportunity and with the score at 1-0 Cowes were always in with a chance of equalising and sending the game to penalties.

Jaylen Gravesande replaced Hastings just before the hour mark and ended up being voted the man of the match.

The best chance of the last 45 minutes came in the final minute, as Aidan Byran lost the ball and Hallahan was denied by Hatt.

The Dragons return to league action on Saturday with a trip to Chesham who warmed up for the game, with a 6-0 thrashing of Hayes and Yeading 6-0 last night.