Stephen Baxter was relieved to see his Crusaders side withstand a late charge by Bangor as they progressed to the Irish Cup quarter-finals on Friday night.
The cup holders had enough chances to have killed the game off by half-time, but had only Philip Lowry's goal to show for their efforts.
The leading goal scorer bagged another one early in the second half to seemingly killed off the Premier Intermediate League side's resistance, but Ben Arthurs had other ideas when he reduced the arrears with 24 minutes to go.