A fairly tepid first half showing from both sides produced little by way of decent scoring opportunities.

Indeed, Institute had only an early Andy Crawford header straight at Philip Matthews to show for their efforts while the Whites could only point to an Andy Waterworth shot from a Gary Browne corner which 'keeper Michael Doherty palmed away.

The visitors came within a whisker of breaking the deadlock on 69 minutes when Crawford smashed the ball off an upright after Ryan Campbell delivered the ball across the six-yard box.