Rovers Y3 complete the treble

North 1, Rovers 2 THE favourites lifted the Le Prevost Cup but it was a real ding-dong battle at Northfield yesterday evening.

Rovers' all-conquering under-14s were pushed all the way by their North counterparts in a match full of graft and with a fair bit of quality thrown in.

Having already captured the Le Vallee Cup and the Youth Three league title, Ian Ozanne's side were expected to make it a clean sweep of trophies in the age group and duly obliged, but not by the comfortable margin some had predicted.

'It was very hard work,' said Rovers coach Ozanne.

'We do not seem to be able to play against the better teams locally as we do against the others. We raise our game against the so-called lesser sides and when we come up against as good an opposition as we got tonight, we are not used to it.

'It was a very good game. I have watched North quite a few times and I thought it was the best game I have seen them play all season, so full credit to them.'

Chances were few and far between in the first half until Rovers produced an outstanding breakaway goal on 32min. as Matt Breban and Guy Batiste combined to send Kane De Carteret clear and he notched reportedly his 45th goal of the campaign.

Just seconds after half-time, captain Danny Ozanne doubled his side's lead with a sweetly-struck volley from 30 yards.

North gave themselves hope with 20 minutes remaining as Callum Wall scored with another fine volley, but they could not find an equaliser despite their spirited effort.

n VALE REC climbed to fourth in the C&W Priaulx League with a 4-1 win over Rangers at the Corbet Field last night.

The sides were level at half-time after Ross Allen had cancelled out Gareth Holden's penalty but excellent goals from Anthony Austen, Matt Falla and James Coquelin gave the hosts maximum points.

In Youth One, St Martin's beat Rangers 4-1 at the Track. For the winners, Ben Whitchurch scored two, with Nick Coleman and Dave Morris grabbing one apiece.