Livingston stay unbeaten of their post-split fixtures because of a goalless attract Paisley in opposition to St Mirren.
Neither aspect was capable of produce a lot in the way in which of easy-on-the-eye soccer with what little motion there was confined largely to the latter phases of each halves.
Both sides should have although they'd bagged the three factors within the ultimate couple of minutes as Jay Henderson's effort was hooked off the road by Livingston captain Nicky Devlin earlier than the Lions virtually gained it on the loss of life as Odin Bailey hit the crossbar.
Within the penultimate sport of the marketing campaign, Livingston boss David Martindale handed a primary league begin to Caleb Chukwuemeka whereas Ivan Konovalov retained his place in objective regardless of Max Stryjek being accessible following his suspension.
The competition was definitely a sluggish burner with neither aspect even threatening a shot on the right track inside the primary 20 minutes earlier than a flurry of exercise that noticed each groups move up first rate possibilities to open the scoring.
Devlin's cross was met on the again put up by Alan Forrest who noticed his effort blocked earlier than Ryan Flynn was agonisingly near connecting with a Curtis Primary flick-on on the different finish.
Saints would go even shut moments later when Scott Tanser's whipping ball into the field was headed fiercely in opposition to the woodwork by Joe Shaughnessy with the rebound clattering off Lions defender Jack Fitzwater and trundling previous the put up.
Chukwuemeka was struggling to get into the sport for the away aspect however the Aston Villa loanee went near netting his first objective for the membership when he flashed a header large from a corner-kick whereas Forrest produced a mazy run that noticed him jink effortlessly in between two defenders just for Jak Alnwick to parry his effort to maintain the sport scoreless.
The very best likelihood of the half, although, got here within the closing moments when Joel Nouble broke in behind the St Mirren defence to race onto a Jackson Longridge ball however one way or the other did not even get a shot off when he was clear by way of on objective.
The second half began very similar to the primary with it taking some time to get going. Alnwick got here to St Mirren's rescue on 62 minutes with a tremendous save to tip Devlin's angled drive over the bar - solely to have instantly want his defence to bail him out after making a hash of claiming the ensuing corner-kick.
Ryan Flynn ought to have achieved higher for the Buddies a couple of minutes later when Ethan Erhahon discovered him unmarked contained in the field however the midfielder fired tamely at Konovalov whereas Alex Grieve could not flip an attractive Greg Kiltie supply into the online.
The house aspect completed the sport the far stronger of the 2 and twice seemed to have grabbed a winner within the closing minutes. Conor McCarthy headed large on the again put up earlier than Jay Henderson fired a fizzing strike that beat the keeper - just for Devlin to return to his aspect's rescue with a sliding goal-line clearance.
And Livi virtually made the Buddies pay when Odin Bailey lower in from the left and noticed his effort deflected onto the crossbar as the sport ended goalless.
St Mirren: Alnwick; Fraser, Shaughnessy, McCarthy; Flynn (Henderson 75), Gogic, Erhahon, Tanser; Kiltie; Primary, Grieve. Subs not used: Lyness, Energy, Brophy, Millar, Gilmartin.
Livingston: Konovalov; Devlin, Fitzwater, Boyes, Longridge (Obileye 80); Kelly, Holt (Omeonga 73), Pittman (Sibbald 80); Chukwuemeka (Soto 63), Nouble, Forrest (Bailey 63). Subs not used: Maley, Montano, Lewis, Shinnie.