Hendon 5 Wealdstone 4
Middlesex Senior Cup second round

What odds do you get on any game between fierce rivals ending 5-4, let alone two?

But the Greens and Stones again produced nine goals, with Hendon edging past the stunned visitors for the second time this season.

The league match between these two sides was still fresh in the memory, and it was business as normal when Jermaine Beckford fired Wealdstone into the lead on 15 minutes.

Ricci Crace restored parity four minutes later when he controlled a Byron Bubb corner and drilled the ball past the keeper.

And fans knew it was going to be another one of those nights when Robin Tucker headed the ball over his own keeper under pressure from Blaise O'Brien to give Hendon the lead three minutes later.

The game settled down until five minutes after the interval when Beckford hit his second.

Two minutes later, Hendon were back in front, when O'Brien beat the keeper to a ball and squared for Bubb to slot home past a defender on the line.

But Wealdstone refused to lie down and Richard Jolly levelled again to take the match into extra time.

Sub Ross Pickett then diverted an O'Brien shot in off the bar before Bubb took an O'Brien cross in his path and drilled home a fifth.

Wealdstone pulled another back through Phil Turner in the second period of extra time, but this time there was no way back.

HENDON: King, Duncan, Bubb, Cooper, Good, J Burgess, Campbell (Julienne 84), Crace (Pickett 60), O'Brien, Cook (Lopes 110). Subs not used: Frendo, Murphy.

AFC Wimbledon 2 Hendon 1
Ryman League Premier Division
by DAVID BALLHEIMER

Hendon saw their recent good run come to a halt in front of AFC Wimbledon's massive home support on Saturday.

A crowd of 2,693 at Kingsmeadow saw the Greens put in a very poor first-half performance which left them with too much to do.

Though they dominated the second half, on balance, the result was just about right.

Dave Anderson's Wimbledon took the lead on seven minutes through Michael Harvey and then added a second just before the half-hour through Richard Butler.

Hendon hauled themselves back into it on 55 minutes when Blaise O'Brien let fly from the angle of the area.

The Greens enjoyed a concerted spell of pressure and Ricci Crace came close with two efforts late on.

Manager Gary McCann said: "We weren't at the races in the first half, but we almost got a point with what we did in the second half."

HENDON: King, Duncan, Murphy (Pickett 74), Cooper, Parker (Bubb 45), Good, J Burgess (Cook 88), Hunt, Crace, O'Brien, Hudell. Subs not used: Froud, Frendo.

Hendon will play host to Margate this Saturday before a return to AFC Wimbledon on Tuesday night for a Westview Rail Cup tie.

The latter match is subject to their hosts not being involved in an FA Trophy replay.