RJF Homes Beckett Football League runners-up Union Rovers gained revenge over champions Kirkdale United by beating them 3-1 in the Victory Cup final.

Striker Pete Tiffney was the hero with two late goals to secure a cup double for Rovers, who had already lifted the Ryedale Hospital Cup.

The match at Pickering Town's Recreation Ground saw Rovers take the lead on 16 minutes from their first real attack as Paul Holder scored with a low 20-yarder.

United pressed for an equaliser but it never came and at the other end needed 'keeper James Thompson to push a Tiffney effort onto the bar.

Kirkdale were on top for the first half-hour of the second period, with Phil Charlton equalising superbly on 74 minutes.

But Rovers regained the lead seven minutes later when Tiffney raced away to score and the same player made sure of the cup with his second three minutes from time.

Coxwold retained the RJF Homes Beckett Football League Division Two League Cup in dramatic style with a penalty shoot-out success against title winners Ryedale SC in the final.

The game at Kirkbymoorside ended 1-1 after extra time with Coxwold winning 4-2 on penalties as Ryedale's James Reed sent his spot-kick over the bar and Danny Meade shot wide.

Coxwold's marksmen in the shoot-out were their man of the match Adrian Leckenby, Paul Simpson, Richard Barritt and Nick Thorne and, although 'keeper Chris Beaumont missed his effort, it didn't matter as only Ben Allan and John Sherwood hit the net for Ryedale.

Coxwold had taken the lead in normal time through Simpson's 25-yard free-kick but Ryedale, for whom John Reed hit a post, equalised when Sherwood was upended and Allan scored from the spot.

Both sides went close in extra time. Ryedale's Paul Lakin had an effort cleared off the line by Tom Banks and Coxwold 'keeper Beaumont denied Sherwood, while Coxwold's Barritt was denied a stoppage time winner by Allan's goal-line clearance.

Updated: 10:44 Tuesday, May 03, 2005