Dorchester 4 BASHLEY 3 (aet) DORCHESTER laid their Bashley bogey and extended their impressive home record last night with an extra-time goal from Danny O'Hagan in a thrilling Dr Martens Cup tie.

But when Bashley led 2-0 early in the second-half they looked odds-on favourites to bring the Magpies interest in the competition to an early end - just as the New Forest underdogs did at the Avenue Stadium last season.

Then the Magpies had their minds on the impending FA Cup tie at Wigan. Last night they could not lay the blame for a less than impressive first-half showing on anything other than sheer complacency.

Fortunately they roused themselves in time to deliver a powerful second-half and took a 3-2 lead before league strugglers Bashley forced an extra half-hour following a late penalty.

The visitors went in front after five minutes when they got the benefit of a wicked deflection which carried Craig Davis' fifth minute shot from 20 yards well out of the reach of home goalkeeper Mark Ormerod.

Though the Magpies soon had two more strokes of bad luck, Matty Holmes' corner being headed against his own upright by Keiron Hall and goalkeeper Ollie Restall being rescued by Lee Waterman when Marcus Oldbury's shot squirmed beneath him and dribbled towards the net, they lacked the sparkle of Saturday's win over Tonbridge.

A relatively tame first-half brought few more goalmouth incidents and when Fraser Quirke beat Ormerod again six minutes into the second period with a low shot from 20 yards, Bashley's strike rate was 100 per cent.

But it all changed dramatically after O'Hagan collected a Holmes flick from Keeler's cross after 57 minutes, turned his man neatly and rattled the ball home from eight yards.

Suddenly it was all Dorchester with Jamie Brown and Mark Jermyn spurning chances before Keeler produced a characteristic free-kick from 30 yards that a diving Ollie Rastall in the Bashley goal could only fingertip into his own net.

Hall and Mark Jones were mighty close to conceding own goals as they hacked the ball wildly over their own net. The Magpies now had their tails up and it was no surprise when Keeler latched onto a Groves pass just outside the area and unleashed another terrific strike to which Rastall once again got a despairing hand but couldn't keep out.

By now Bashley's forward sorties were rare - but they made it 3-3 on 76 minutes after a clumsy challenge from Ollie Cherrett felled Dean Higgins inside the area.

Magpies goalkeeper Mark Ormerod parried Davis' spot-kick but with Dorchester's defenders distracted by a flagging assistant official, substitute Stuart Cooper followed up to net the loose ball and referee Johnson from Bristol allowed the goal to stand despite a storm of Magpie protests.

Groves twice had one-on-one chances to avoid the necessity for extra time - blasting wide on both occasions - and a penalty shoot-out looked on the cards as Groves had a goal ruled out for offside and O'Hagan was robbed by Hall when he seemed a certain scorer.

But after 112 minutes O'Hagan shook off tiring defenders in a break down the middle and thundered in a low drive. Rastall got something in the way, but the sheer power of the shot saw the ball loop on into the net to put the Magpies into round two.