Hakin United 1 NARBERTH 0 AARON Owens was the toast of Hakin United after scoring the only goal to earn senior cup glory over shell-shocked Narberth.

The 20-year-old striker got the winner with barely three minutes on the clock.

An excellent Shaun Mills pass fell very kindly for the talented youngster, who stole a march on the Narberth defence, and as cool as a cucumber, he arrowed his 12 yard effort clinically past stranded keeper Huw Davies.

However, Vikings' goalie Adrian Devonald was also his side's hero after pulling off a stunning 84th penalty save to deny the final being forced into extra-time.

But nobody in the ground at that stage would have dreamt that Owens' early strike would have proved so decisive.

This is the third time that Hakin have met Narberth in the final and on each occasion The Vikings have triumphed.

Delighted Hakin boss Colin Fawcett has won the West Wales Intermediate Cup and the league when he was previously in charge, but this was his first Senior Cup success.

Owens' stunning finish gave the underdogs just the dream start that they were craving against most people's favourites.

There was a sizeable crowd at the Bridge Meadow, for what is without doubt the biggest game in the Pembrokeshire football league calendar.

It has to be said that this wasn't a classic senior cup final, but Narberth, were left to rue missed chances come the final whistle.

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In the opening exchanges it was the Vikings who looked the far hungrier and the early breakthrough really did rock the Bluebirds' camp to the core.

On 18 minutes, young Vikings central defender Chris Milich mistimed his defensive clearance and the ball fell for the advancing Wayne Howells, the veteran striker had probably too much time and he uncharacteristically scuffed his shot wide with his left foot from inside the box.

Vikings' central midfielder Gary Dawes who was inspirational throughout picked up the only booking of the clash around the 28th minute, after clattering keeper Huw Davies going for a 50-50 ball, which he had every right to contest for inside the box.

Shortly before the interval Narberth's Morgan Preece struck a close range effort just wide and that's how it stood at the halfway stage.

In the second period, Telegraph Sport was expecting the Bluebirds to chuck everything bar the kitchen sink at the Vikings, but it never really materialised that way as Colin Fawcett's troops were content to soak up all the pressure and hit their adversaries on the counter.

Six minutes after the break and Narberth had a glorious opportunity to level matters.

Eighteen-year-old right sided midfielder Jason Jones broke clean through, but Vikings' in-form goalkeeper Adrian Devonald came quickly off his line, and did exceptionally well to deny what looked a certain equaliser.

On the hour mark, Narberth once again went extremely close to scoring.

A well delivered free-kick from defender Richard Henton into the box saw Charlie Smith's stooping diving header go straight into the grateful midriff of Devonald.

The Vikings went close to going two-up and killing off the final just 15 minutes from normal time. Dawes' quickly taken free-kick caught the Bluebirds napping, the ball fell to his fellow tricky midfielder Steve Mathias, who struck low and hard first time from the edge of the area, and his effort went agonisingly past Davies' right hand post.

With the final virtually over it looked as though the Vikings had shut up shop and were content to just run down the clock.

However, in the 84th minute Narberth were thrown a lifeline when they were dramatically awarded a contentious penalty by referee Chris Stapleton.

Vikings' vastly experienced sweeper Nigel Armstrong looked as though he was harshly adjudged to have up-ended substitute Adrian Jones inside the area.

Up stepped Narberth's central midfielder Raff Barnett, and his firmly struck 12 yard spot-kick was brilliantly stopped by Telegraph Sport's man of the match Adrian Devonald, diving quickly down to his right to deny an equaliser, but more importantly there would be no extra time.

Bluebirds' manager Barry Walters felt 'gutted' that his side on the day couldn't quite come up with the goods on his last time in charge, but he readily admitted afterwards that they had enough chances, but they just didn't take them. As simple as that.

Pembrokeshire League secretary Brian Hawkins thanked everyone who helped in any way to stage the final at the Bridge Meadow. Chairman Eddie Oliver proceeded by presenting runners-up and winners medals to the players and of course presented the cup to proud Vikings skipper Kristan Bennett, who received the loudest cheer of the afternoon when he held the coveted senior cup aloft. Was this a classic case of deja-vu?