Nate Jaqua and Cashpoint Altach stayed clear of the relegation mire by topping SV Ried 3-2 on Saturday night to avenge last week's road defeat.

American striker Nate Jaqua again went the distance, but might feel he could have done better with a couple of prime scoring chances.

The keepers were under duress early and often at Stadion Schnabelholz, with Ried backstop forced to dive to save an Oliver Mattle drive at one end and Altach #1 Mario Krassnitzer alert to deny Muhammet Akagündüz at the other.

As he did last week, Akagündüz opened the scoring early, this time on 10 minutes. The diminutive attacker collected a Herwig Drechsel on the right and cut inside to bury a picturesque left-footed shot from a sharp angle.

Altach ace Roland Kirchler leveled matters in the 35th minute, scoring after picking Drechsel's pocket in the Ried area.

The veteran bagged his second nine minutes out of intermission with a fine long range effort from Mattle's set-up. Three minutes later, provider turned scorer as Mattle upped the lead off of a Karsten Hutwelker feed.

Ernst Doppel pulled one back for the visitors on the hour, but they failed to test Krassnitzer during the remainder.

Jaqua nearly made it four in the waning moments, only to nod directly into Gebauer's arms from a good position.

Altach will have a chance to claim three important survival points when they visit ninth place Wacker Innsbruck on Saturday.

Scoring
SVR - Muhammet Akagündüz 3 (Herwig Drechsel) 10'
ALT - Roland Kirchler 4 35'
ALT - Roland Kirchler 5 (Oliver Mattle) 54'
ALT - Oliver Mattle 3 (Karsten Hutwelker) 57'
SVR - Ernst Dospel 2 60'

Line-ups
ALT - Mario Krassnitzer; Alen Orman, Pablo Chinchilla, Alexander Guem, Enrico Pfister (Stephan Kling 53'), Patrick Mayer (Bernd Winkler 78'), Roland Kirchler (Daniel Gramann 90'), Karsten Hutwelker, Oliver Mattle, Manfred Pamminger, Nate Jaqua

SVR - Thomas Gebauer; Christoph Jank, Tomasz Rzasa (Rade Ðokić 88'), Harun Erbek, Hamdi Salihi (Sebastian Martinez 79'), Muhammet Akagündüz, Herwig Drechsel, Ernst Dospel, Ewald Brenner (Anel Hadžić 45'), Peter Hackmair, Jürgen Pichorner