Alloa started well against table-toppers Brechin at Recreation Park and in the eleventh minute Jose Quitongo and James Stevenson worked well to give Ross Hamilton a golden opportunity to open the scoring, but Craig Nelson in the Brechin goal turned the ball away for a corner.
After15 minutes Jose Quitongo again had the Brechin defence under pressure when he ran from inside his own half and beat four defenders, but Andy Brown was unable to finish and his poor shot from 11 yards went past the post.
Brechin City clawed their way back into the match, and in the 17th minute a goal-bound Paul Ritchie shot from only six yards was brilliantly cleared from the line by Chris Townsley. Two mintues later Graham Gibson's close-range header was saved low at the post by James Evans, J.
Brechin took control of the match, and the Alloa defence were pinned back by the constant pressure from the Brechin attack force of Paul Ritchie and Steven Hampshire. It was Ritchie who broke the deadlock after 42 minutes when he ran on to an inch-perfect Stuart Callaghan pass and fired home from an acute angle from the edge of the box.
Alloa started the second half with passion and in the 50th minute were unlucky not to equalise when Stevenson connected with a Ross Hamilton cross only to see his well-struck shot saved low at the post by Brechin keeper Craig Nelson.
Alloa's pressure was rewarded with an equaliser in the 80th minute whe Brown Ferguson was on hand to rise unchallenged above the Brechin defence and from only four yards out head home a John Ovenstone cross from the left. In the end both managers felt that a draw was a fair result, and certainly no one in the 522 crowd could complain about the effort from both sides.