Kilmarnock made it 13 points from the last 15 with an impressive win over Dunfermline Athletic.
And what a Christmas Gary McSwegan has had. Having extending his contract earlier this week, the Killie striker thanked boss Jim Jefferies by opening the scoring against the Pars, having seconds earlier blocked a certain Craig Brewster goal on the line at the other end.
Kris Boyd secured the points by netting a cracker with almost his first touch of the ball after coming on as a late substitute.
In physically draining conditions facing unrelenting rain neither team was able to create many openings in the first half. Indeed Kilmarnock didn't have a shot throughout that first period.
The home side had looked the far more likely side the break the deadlock with long-range efforts by Jason Dair, Lee Bullen and Scott Thomson all going close.
Having taken the brunt of the pressure, Killie came out looking hungrier in the second half.
A neat one-two with Andy McLaren put Alan Mahood clear on the right edge of the Dunfermline penalty box. His cross put the home defence under pressure and Gary Mason's forced clearance almost became an own goal.
The deadlock was broken in the 70th minute when McSwegan met James FowlerÂ’s low right-wing drive on the edge of the six-yard box to slam the ball home.
The diminutive striker had stopped his team from going behind at the other end by blocking BrewsterÂ’s admittedly weak effort on his own goal-line.
The Ayrshire team clinched this important victory with a wonder goal just two minutes from time.
Boyd had only been on the pitch a matter of minutes when a Bullen blunder gave him possession on the left edge of the Pars' 18-yard box.
The substitute rounded Andrius Skerla before firing in an unstoppable strike past Derek Stillie.