The midfielder had a handful of chances as we recovered from a slow start to dominate the game, but was on point to finish off Keanan Bennetts' counter-attack in the 55th minute against a Reds outfit featuring four senior internationals from their first team squad.
One of those, England's Adam Lallana, was shown a straight red card shortly after the goal for reacting angrily to a challenge from midfielder George Marsh and, from there, we pressed home the advantage.
We were making the most of the extra man in the middle and when George Johnston picked up a second yellow card three minutes from time, the Reds were forced to play on with nine men.