LEVERSTOCK GREEN 0 DUNSTABLE TOWN 1Dan O'Connor's 76th minute volley secured Town's first league double of the season and made up for an earlier glaring miss on a night of unremitting cold and rather too many long balls.
It was the second successive game, Dunstable have defeated a team placed higher than themselves in the Premier Division and moves them up a place after Haringey Borough despatched Hillingdon Borough 8-0..
The Pancake Lane encounter was hardly flat and devoid of excitement as both teams had opportunities to score, and but for waywardness and the woodwork, there would have been more than just a solitary goal.
Nick Jackson's and other attempts that came in the first half mostly ended up over the bar.
Greens' Dale Sears could count himself unfortunate when his header in a crowded penalty area didn't get turned in and they were further denied when another attempt struck both bar and post before being cleared.
Town's Perrin missed a header that he seemed destined to convert but couldn't reach as it flashed across goal.
It did seem likely that corners would present the best chances for both sides, and indeed there were goalmouth melees that all too often were halted by the whistle of referee Luigi Lungarella, who had a sound performance and was even in his judgement, if perhaps just a little too zealous in his few bookings.
A stop start game looked increasingly likely to be settled by one goal, if at all, and luckily when the chance fell to O'Connor he met it with a superb volley that keeper Carl Tasker could do no more than watch as it bulged the net.
It did not deflate the home side who pressed hard for an equaliser and Dunstable were glad of the safe hands of Paul Taylor who was faultless with his handling in the many hopeful crosses that encroached on his territory.
The Blues could have doubled when O’Connor took advantage of Tasker’s butter fingers, but he shot wide from a difficult angle without seeing the advancing Douglas Kisuule waiting for the pass that he surely would have converted.
In the end one goal was enough and the Blues will next take on Tring Athletic at Creasey Park on Saturday. Despite the Hertfordshire side hitting six against Welwyn Garden City, Town will fancy another win after already beating them in league and cup this season.
DUNSTABLE TOWN
Paul Taylor, Scott Wood, Lee Burgoyne, Shane Wood, Matthew Baldry, Neal Perrin, Nick Jackson, Dan Picknell, Douglas Kisuule, Dan O’Connor, Jake Bewley.
Substitutes- Aaron Flood, Luke Flood, Russell Preston and Lewis Osborne.