Two changes to the side for the trip to Alloa, Daniel Church returned from illness in defence with Cammy Logan dropping to the bench, along with Gordon Botterill as Harry Stone took his place in goal. Gavin Reilly had recovered enough from the dead leg he suffered against Falkirk to keep his place up front.
It was a fairly scrappy start to the game with both sides playing between the 18-yard lines and neither getting the ball near the goal. Taylor Steven did try a shot from distance, but it was wide before Kieran McKechnie did well to track back to make a challenge on Ali Roy inside the area to clear.
Scott Taggert hit a powerful ball forward, but it came back off Roy before Euan Deveney played it back across only for Efe Ambrose to take it away from the feet of Bobby Wales.
Midway through the first half, McKechnies cross was cleared as far as Church, but his left foot shot from outside the box was also off target.
With just over half an hour gone, Stone was eventually called into action when a short pass by Church to Oscar MacIntyre was intercepted by Steven Buchanan and the keeper did well to block with his feet. Roy couldnt get to the rebound.
That was the first real chance of the game and as the ball was played up field, McKechnie crossed from the left, but the ball was cleared for a corner by Morgyn Neill. Seven minutes from the break, Lee Connelly played a decent ball in for Reilly, but the striker was having to stretch to get his head on the end of it and PJ Morrison collected.
Two minutes later, Reilly made a great run from inside his own half and skipped passed a few challenges to get into the area, instead of taking a shot he laid it to his left for McKechnie, but his low drive was turned round the post for a corner.
HALF TIME: Alloa 0 Queens 0
Into the second half and Wales was high and wide with a left foot effort from 20-yards before the same player claimed for a penalty against Church.
A minute later, Kyle McClelland and MacIntyre combined to set up Reilly, but he went down too easily in the box.
On the hour mark, Queens were enjoying a decent spell and McKechnie had a left foot shot from 30 yards that Morrison collected before he denied a 25-yard effort from Ferguson.
It was a game of little chances and it always looked like one goal would win it, ironically, during Queens best spell in the game, it was the home side who got the breakthrough. As Ambrose tried to find MacIntyre, Buchanan pulled the other defenders out of the area before his cross found the unmarked Roy in space, he controlled well before beating Stone with a lovely finish.
The game was crying out for a goal and having got one, the Wasps looked for a second, as Queens defenders were pulled out of shape again, Steven had a chance to finish but turned it wide.
Chasing the game, Reilly was under pressure as he made his way into the box and the home side cleared, it fell to Paul McKay outside the box, he had the shot but needed to keep it down.
With 20 minutes remaining, in a bid to take something from the game the manager made four changes at the one time, with Lewis Gibson, Harry Cochrane, Jake Hutchinson, and Craig McGuffie introduced at the expense of McKechnie, McKay, Connelly, and Ferguson. Unfortunately, they didnt really change the game much and it was the home side who had another chance. As Roy got on the end of a low cross, he got a decent touch on it, and it had power, but Stone saved.
In the closing stages, Josh Todd fired over the bar from 25-yards and Gibsons in swinging corner was punched away by Morrison, as the ball fell, McGuffie had a snapshot but if flew wide. And in added on time, Cochrane volleyed over the bar.
FULL TIME - Alloa 1 Queens 0