The swirling wind and bouncy pitch made it difficult for both sides to find their measure and Paulton grabbed a winner five minutes from time to take all three points back to Somerset. The win means they go into the Easter progamme in tenth position in the Evostik Southern Premier.
Rovers had the first clear chance on eleven minutes when Mitchell Page won a header and Scott Wilson split the home defence for Page to race onto the ball only to shoot wide.
A minute later, Jon Davies started a move involving Page and Wilson to fire the ball into the net, but was ruled out for offside. Banbury pressed and Kynan Isaac's dangerous cross was cut out by Rovers' central defender, Shayne Anson.
The home side had a great chance on 27 minutes as Carl Tappin broke down the left and tried to lob Kyle Phillips, however, the ball swirled narrowly wide.
Paulton left back, Sam Teale, was on hand to head a threatening free kick from Hicham Abdellah and his Captain, Scott Brice, was marshalling his troops to prevent any danger from the Oxfordshire side.
In the first minute of the second half, Marvin Martin ran down the 'Puritans' left and hit a volley wide of Phillips' goal. Both sides huffed and puffed as the game surged from end to end without any real threat and defences on top.
Davies was now showing why many league clubs are monitoring ther Paulton winger. On 73 minutes, his free kick nearly caught out United's keeper, Luke Bedwell. Banbury upped their play, only for the Rovers defence to mop up any threat as they hit a series of high balls easily caught by Phillips.
With five minutes left of normal time, young Bristol City loanee, Liam Monelle, on as substitute, broke across the ball and found Teale, whose low driving was superbly tipped over the bar by the diving Bedwell.
Davies took the resultant corner on the right and Teale, running from the left, met the ball with a firm header that sailed past Bedwell into the net to seal the result for Nick Bunyard's side. There was still time for Man of the Match Teale to make a great last-ditch tackle to stop Darius Browne firing a shot towards the Paulton goal.
Paulton have two home games over Easter. On Saturday, they are home to Cambridge-based former Conference side, Histon FC, then on Easter Monday, welcome Bideford. Both games kick off at 3 p.m. As The Journal went to press, on Tuesday, 31st March, they played Taunton Town in the semi-final of the Somerset Premier Cup.
The youth team were at Welton Rovers on Tuesday, 31st March and then home to Keynsham Town U18s on 9th April, kick-off at 7.30 p.m.