Goals from Ben Mackey and James Husband sank Charlie Blakemore's side at the Scholars, where Cardiff City had played in the FA Cup third round three weeks ago.

Brakes attacked from the word go and were in the ascendancy once they had survived a couple of early scares. Chasetown lost Ben Steane to injury within five minutes and might have taken the lead had Danny Smith not shot straight at Richard Morris when well placed.

At the other end Robbie Beard and Mackey both had chances, the latter almost beating keeper Lee Evans with an audacious long-range chip.

Brakes were doing most of the pressing, for which reward came when Mackey controlled the ball on the edge of the box and fired a low shot past the static Evans on 33 minutes.

If Chasetown sensed it wasn't to be their night they took a while to show it. Craig Holland came closest to an equaliser early in the second half, forcing Morris to turn his shot round the post.

Husband put the game beyond the home side on 55 minutes, using his speed and skill to collect a fine cross-field pass from Keith Rostill and cut inside.

Evans blocked his effort to place the ball, so he smashed the rebound powerfully into the top of the net.

With Beard and Rostill dragging defenders all over the place, Stuart Herlihy and Liam Reynolds running the muddy midfield, Husband and Towers busy on the wings and centre-backs Arron Parkinson, Adam Cooper and Guy Sanders olooking unbeatable, Chasetown needed a stroke of luck to get back into the game.

It looked like they'd got it when the referee pointed to the spot for a Morris foul on 64 minutes. Instead top scorer Dean Perrow blasted the ball over the bar and out of the ground.

Blakemore's men looked a beaten side after that, although they did manage to hit the woodwork in the closing stages. Brakes meanwhile kept looking for a third goal that wouldn't have flattered them.

Brakes: Richard Morris, Jamie Towers, Arron Parkinson (capt], Adam Cooper, Guy Sanders, Stuart Herlihy, Liam Reynolds, Ben Mackey (Martin Thompson 80), Robbie Beard (Vijay Sidhu 84), Keith Rostill (Marcus Jackson 65), James Husband. Subs not used: Martin Hier, Craig Dutton. Att 706