The Ducks came back twice to level the scores during normal and extra time, but eventually lost on penalties to a strong Brackley team, the Final being held over from last season. Both teams spent much of the game with ten men after Town's Doug Yabsley suffered a broken right leg five minutes into the second half, a tackle which earned midfielder
David Hume his marching orders by the referee Mr Hamley from Ampthill.
In the first minute Simon Gregory raced out to block a shot by former Silverstone top scorer Aidy Spencer, the same player going close shortly after.
Ian Scott scored the first of two goals on 14 minutes, spotting stand-in keeper Dave Foreman off his line, and Scott lobbed into the net from 30 yards.
Town levelled at 1-1 after 31 minutes when Keith Walker weakly passed back to Gregory and the alert Spencer accepted the chance and went round the Ducks keeper and tapped into an empty net.
Four minutes later Brackley went in front. A right side corner was sent in low and hard to Jamie Cunningham, and he shot first time through a crowd of legs.
Aylesbury pressed forward much more in the second half, and Foreman saved efforts from Scott, Glen Donegal, and Owen Wright. The pressure finally paid six minutes from time with an Ian Scott special. Fully 35 yards out he struck a beautiful right foot volley which screamed into the top left corner to send the game into extra time.
Donegal missed the target by inches with a cross-shot after 4 minutes, then on 12 minutes Brackley went in front 3-2. Chasing a lost cause, Spencer own the ball from Mick Tomlinson out on the left, then having moved into the area a mix up in the Ducks defence allowed Spencer a second bite and he scored with ease.
Twelve minutes from the end Peter Hutter flicked home at the near post after good work by Wright to level at 3-3 and force a penalty shoot-out.
Tomlinson (post) and Steve Lambert (over the bar) missed, with Hutter, Donegal, and Nick Ashby converting. The last kick, taken by Town's Spencer hit the bar but came down, struck the diving Gregory and returned into the net. As they say, ?if your names on the Cup'??.
