For the first time of the season Aylesbury won their fourth game in a row with a deserved victory in a bruising encounter at Stevenage Borough. Trailing to a first half Graham Westley goal, the physical approach of the home side midway through threatened to boil over, but United kept their composure and after John Lawford wrapped up the points they played out the last ten minutes without trouble.

In a frantic opening twenty minutes Borough bombarded United, using to good effect their front pair of Martin Gittings and the lanky Neil Trebble who is currently having trials with Barclays League Scunthorpe. In that period keeper Simon Gregory managed to keep his goal intact, and made one brilliant tip over to foil an 18 yard curling shot from Gittings.

Borough's offside tactics had continued to frustrate United's forwards. However on 19 minutes the trap failed and Phil Heath raced clear before finding Graham Westley unmarked in the box but his close range drive was pushed over by home keeper Richard Wilmot.

Thankfully it didn't take long for Westley to make amends. After 36 minutes Cliff Hercules crossed into the nearpost and Westley nipped in before defender Paul Bowgett to clip a left foot shot past Wilmot and give his team the lead.

A minute either side of the interval Gregory pulled off two good saves to deny dangerman Trebble, but the home pressure finally paid off after 54 minutes. Steve Graham's low cross was met ten yards out by a bullet of a shot from Mark Smith to level the score at 1-1.

At that stage it looked as if Stevenage with their tails up would hit another but within three minutes of conceding, United got a penalty when Simon Mason was brought down by Bowgett. Westley duly converted the spotkick to take his tally to 17 goals in 21 games.

Referee Mr Monk had a busy ten minutes brandishing the yellow card three times as unhappy Stevenage tried to knock lumps out of their visitors, and Mark Mallinson was unlucky also to have his name taken for a clumsy challenge. Sanity prevailed and when football rather than kicking returned, Aylesbury killed the game off in the 79th minute with a quality goal.

Captain Andy Robinson on the halfway line passed down the flank for Phil Heath who used his pace to get round Bowgett and crossed to Graham Westley in the box. He controlled the ball well and unselfishly backheeled the ball to John Lawford who made no mistake from six yards.

That knocked the stuffing out of Stevenage who created little after that, and ten minutes later United celebrated another three points which lifted them to sixth place in the table.