Non League: Bradford Park Avenue 3, Eastwood Town 1.

Avenue turned their final home game of the season into a celebration as they cruised to their third league double of the season, dumping sixth-placed Eastwood Town with an impressive first half display.

The victory lifts Avenue back to seventh in UniBond Division One, right on the heels of Saturday's visitors, and is the perfect fillip before Wednesday's West Riding County Cup final against Ossett Albion.

Despite the comfortable win, manager Trevor Storton had mixed feelings. "It was nice to finish off with a win for the spectators," he said. "But we relaxed too much at 2-0 up. We started doing things we shouldn't have. They never hurt us, but we took silly chances. Their goal was good - it went in off the post, but Derek O'Connor would never have got to it. There can be no blame for that one."

Avenue set a frantic pace from the kick-off and raced to a 2-0 lead inside 15 minutes. They maintained their approach until the break, but as the second half wore on they seemed to be thinking of Wednesday's final.

Livewire forward Chris Brandon grabbed the first in the second minute. Collecting Nicky Hey's long throw-in at the corner of the six-yard box, he turned to rifle a shot past Eastwood keeper Danny Bryant.

Eleven minutes later Bryant was picking the ball out of his net again. Jonathan James made the break and turned the ball deep into the area for Stephen Ball to drill home. Chances followed for Brandon, Clive Free-man, Jason Maxwell - who had an effort cleared off the line after Bryant parried - and Hey before half-time, but Avenue did not capitalise.

The home side found themselves under increasing pressure as Eastwood began the second half well. Then Avenue netted their third from a penalty just after the hour.

Hey's run on goal was ended by an untidy challenge from behind by Barry Turner. Freeman stepped forward to drive home his sixth spot kick of the season from seven attempts.

Eastwood striker Peter Morgan scored direct from a 20-yard free kick.

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