Shrewsbury Town 1 Notts County 0

Shrewsbury Town's fine home form continued as they defeated League One basement side Notts County 1-0 thanks to Adam Reach's second half strike.

The Middlesbrough loanee reacted quickest to Gozie Ugwu's header back across goal 17 minutes from time to make it five games unbeaten at the Greenhous Meadow.

But it was a hard earned three points in a close match which could have gone either way.

Chris Weale had to be alert to deny Notts' attacker Marcus Haber inside two minutes while at the other end Aaron Wildig drew a decent save from Bartosz Bialkowski 10 minutes later.

The visitors had a goal disallowed midway through the half, Gary Liddle's header ruled out for an infringement in the box.

And Town lost Wildig to injury just after the half hour mark, replacing him with Nick Wroe.

Ugwu hit the bar for the hosts five minutes before the interval but Luke Summerfield and Joe Jacobson had to clear headers off the line at the other end as County finished the half strongly.

Haber and Campbell-Ryce both went close for County early into the second half but Darren Jones saw his powerful header drop just wide at the other end.

And Ugwu's backheel, from Parry's cross, also drew a good save from Bialkowski.

A curling Callum McGregor effort had Weale scrambling soon afterwards but just dipped wide.

But Town found their breakthrough when Reach powered home from Ugwu's knockdown following a Ryan Woods cross.

Notts County substitute Jack Grealish went close to an equaliser with a backheeled effort which required a great tackle from Woods late on.

And Weale did well to deny Manny Smith two minutes from time as Town held on to earn a first win in three games.