Published: Monday, 27th April, 2009 10:50am

Wasps a point nearer safety

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Alloa 0 v 0 Queens Park

Maitland confident Alloa will stay up.

ALLOA maintain a vital four point advantage over fellow strugglers Queens Park - with only two games remaining - after this edgy goaless draw.

The visitors were hungrier from the first whistle and took the game to a laclustre home side.

Paul Harkins went close for the Spiders after 19 minutes with a 12-yard shot that sailed just over.

Queens continued to press and only a goal line clearance from Scot Buist kept out Paul Cairney's close range shot 10 minutes later.

Good defending was to the fore again after 36 minutes when James Brough made a goal saving challenge on Alloa's Kyle Macaulay six yards from goal.

It was a chance a piece second half.

Queens Ryan Holms had the best chance of the match on 81 minutes when the ball broke to him 10 yards from goal but his shot was weak and easily saved by Ray Jellema.

The last chance of the game fell to Wasps substitute Pat Scullion who saw his piledriver finger tipped expertly over by Alexander Cowie in the Queens goal.

A win would have guaranteed Alloa's Second Division status, but a point leaves them four points ahead of Queens with two games to go, which left Allan Maitland as the happier of the two managers at full-time.

He said, "I am confident we can still stay up."