Hayes ran out comfortable winners over their local rivals to end another season on a high as the Missioners won the Allied Counties Premier for the third consecutive season.

Full-back Jack Rooney almost opened the scoring in the first minute but was unable to convert a far post cross to which he had arrived unchecked by the Hares defence.

The Missioners had a scare of their own on seven minutes when a cross by Jake Morten from the left sailed over the despairing stretch of John Peacock and came bouncing back off the crossbar. The Hares continued to press and only an timely interception from skipper Dave Thomas stopped Richmond Agyeman who looked poised to fire home.

Thomas was again in the thick of things four minutes later, a Liam Hind cross from the right was fumbled by Hares keeper Sam Bellis and then cleared but only as far as Thomas who fired back a dipping shot from range that beat Bellis before crashing off the underside of the bar, bouncing on the line and being headed clear by Joe Newman.

The opener was not long coming though, just before the half hour mark Andrew Harewood danced his way along the byeline before pulling the ball back neatly to Dominic McAuley who rammed the ball home off the underside of the bar. The home side were not going to just sit back and take it from the Champions however and just three minutes later Peacock had to be at his best to tip a 25 yard drive from Jack Ableton over his crossbar.

This chance was indeed the prelude to a Hares equaliser, six minutes later a free-kick was played into the Missioners area, McAuley's touch was not strong enough and Morten nipped in to fire home past an unsighted Peacock.

This served as a wake up call for Simon East's side as they began to push upfield looking to regain the advantage. Toby Little and Harewood combined well on the left to set up a shooting chance for Michael Bryan but Bellis did extremely well to tip his shot over the bar. The lead was regained as the game entered stoppage time with Harewood again the creator, this time he fed Rooney who coolly fired into the bottom corner from 15 yards.

The second half was pretty much one way traffic as the Hayes side showed why they have only lost a single League game this season, and that to a disputed penalty at Farnborough.

Just seven minutes had passed when Harewood became scorer instead of creator as the striker received the ball from Bryan before turning his marker and sliding the ball home. McAuley then had a shot saved by Bellis and Bryan was only just wide having moved through four tackles before getting his shot away from the edge of the box.

Harewood was then put through by Little only for Bellis to save with his legs before play switched ends and a low free-kick was met by Leo Whiting but he was wide of the target. Harewood then had a 20 yarder held by Bellis before the Missioners netted again, this time a prefect Hind pass set up Jerome Ferguson who took a touch before firing confidently past Bellis.

Just seven minutes later a fifth goal arrived that was the reverse of the previous one, Ferguson cutting the ball back neatly to Hind who also took one touch before firing past Bellis.

With the game won and the home side down to ten men courtesy of an injury when all substitutes had been used the game took it's course with no further incident to report.

After the match Dave Thomas was presented with the League Championship trophy in the Harefield clubhouse and Simon now starts building for next years assault on the title, can we do the quadruple?

Report by Kevin Watts.