Greenalls Padgate St Oswalds 3 Rylands 3

(after extra time, GPSO win 5-3 on pens)

GREENALLS Padgate St Oswalds have their hands on the Guardian Cup after a thrilling final at Cantilever Park today.

They led from the second minute to the 88th and again went ahead in extra time but in the end it was George Farrelly's penalty that secured the Warrington and District League's premier silverware for the Greens in dramatic scenes.

The first five penalties of the deciding shootout between Cheshire League arch-rivals hit the mark, with Ben Slater, Gareth Johns and skipper Mark Hughes netting for Greenalls, and Jonathan Dawson and James Sinker responding for Rylands.

Przermek Staniszewski's effort was then saved by Jack Trubshaw, Ellis Houghton just about beat Conor Yarwood for 4-2 before Stephen Latham kept Rylands hopes alive.

But Farrelly held his nerve before being swamped by his jubilant teammates.

Gavin Horner put Greenalls two goals ahead inside the opening five minutes.

He was at the far post to finish off a cross headed on by Hughes and then he capitalised on a back pass that went wrong from David France.

Rylands pulled a goal back in the 56th minute through Staniszewski and sub Danny Sisson came to their rescue two minutes from time, bundling the ball home from Dawson's free kick to force an extra 30 minutes.

A Slater break in the 25th minute of extra time led to Chris Rogers putting Greenalls back in front but again Sisson was in the right place to head home the equaliser two minutes later to take the tie into penalties.