HOPE Tavern have won the Dudley and Cradley League's Dudley Guest Hospital Cup.

Hope claimed revenge for the previous weekend's final defeat at the hands of Coseley Tavern by beating the same opposition 3-0 this time around.

The second meeting of these teams for the second Sunday running saw the game played in a strong swirling wind.

The first few minutes were very testing as both teams tried to take control of the ball and master the difficult conditions.

It was Coseley that created the first real chance on 6 minutes when a cross from their left flew across the goalmouth, but Scott Scriven could just not get his toe to the ball with an open net in front of him.

On 18 minutes, Hope broke out from their defence and the following scramble in the area came out to Ben Jones who struck the ball from outside the area and two deflections off the Coseley defenders totally wrong footed the Coseley keeper Terry Shaw and flew into the net.

Hope now slowly started to take control of the game and on 25 minutes could have been two up when a 25 yard shot from Jason Chilton was goal bound into the top left hand corner of the net only to see a brilliant defensive header from Grant Scriven divert the ball over the bar. On 34 minutes, Coseley had a break and once again it was the defence that came to their teams rescue when it was Hope Tavern that headed the ball off the line.

At half time Coseley Tavern made a substitution, bringing Ben Scriven on to replace John Shaw.

On 47 minutes, Geoff Hill hit a screamer from 25 yards that Terry Shaw in the Coseley goal tipped over the bar with an excellent save. Two minutes later Hope had a corner and the resultant goal mouth scramble fell to the feet of Ben Jones who finished well to make it 2-0.

On 55 minutes, Hope went 3-0 up when the ball was deflected into his own net by a Coseley player.

Coseley kept on pushing and on 66 minutes Stuart Hillman hit a 25 yard screamer that was excellently tipped over the bar by Hope keeper Mark Garvey.

With 20 minutes to go Coseley manager Anthony Savvas took a bold move and substituted Rob Hubble for Luke Jenkinson and changed the line up putting three strikers up front in a bid to get back in to the game.

But this change did not help Coseley as Hope pushed on and on 78 could have increased their lead except for two instinctive saves from Shaw.

Remaining fixtures: The Harry Downing Trophy, Thursday, May 15, 7.30pm at Dudley Sports FC - Halesowen Members v Sedgley White Lion.

The John Higham Trophy, Sunday, May 17, 11am at Gornal FC - Barley Mow Wanderers v Coseley Tavern.