A WEEK after beating Arms Athletic in the Kelvin Cup at Winklebury, Tron beat the same side in the Andover Presidents Cup final 2-1.

Once again, this was a close fought and fiercely contested match against two sides who were well acquainted with each other.

Ross Cook was in fine form and, within the first minute, had a well struck shot saved.

Arms almost scored when a diagonal cross into a crowd of players in the box, which bounced by the Tron goalkeeper Luke Strickland’s feet and fortunately harmlessly through into touch.

Cook was a thorn in Arms’ side and was brought down in the box by the goalkeeper on 21 minutes.

The goalie was booked, but got down at full stretch to his left to save Cook’s penalty kick.

At the other end, Strickland made a good save five minutes later to prevent Tron going behind.

In the 29th minute, Cook was clear on goal and this time made no mistake for a 1-0 lead.

Man of the match Cook then turned provider and Chris Morris shot just wide of the left upright after 40 minutes.

Arms pushed three up front in the second half, but Stickland coped with anything that passed the solid back four of Keiron Fuller, Michael Allison, Nathan Rae, Darryl Taylor and his substitute Steve Caswell.

With 20 minutes to to go, though, Danny Urry, an ex-Tron player who had been effective on the left, collected the ball from Kriss Hudson and equalised with a good finish.

With three minutes left a fine run from David Parry found Cook, who tapped the ball into substitute Dave Morgan in the centre.

He jinked, rolled and dragged the ball past three or four players, in an area you could barely swing a cat in and stroked the ball off the right post past the goalkeeper for 2-1 win to Tron.