Rovers Ladies retained the FA Women’s National League Cup - to do the double, double with a 3-0 victory over Crawley Wasps in Sunday’s Final at the Pirelli Stadium.

Rovers had already been crowned league champions in March and have now repeated last season’s incredible achievements.

They will aim to go one better when they face Fylde Ladies in the Lancashire Challenge Cup final at Leyland on Thursday, May 9 (7.30pm) before a ‘Champion of Champions’ game on Saturday, May 18 (2pm) when they will meet Southern Division winners Coventry United Ladies at Valley Parade

Against the Wasps, a goal in each half from Saffron Jordan and Natasha Flint had Gemma Donnelly’s side in complete control before Jordan added her second - and Rovers’ third - late on.

Crawley started brightly and had the game’s first attempt on goal when Faye Rabson tested Danielle Gibbons.

But the game was just eight minutes old when Jordan opened the scoring. Lauren Davies kept Flint’s cross alive at the back post, flicking it back into the path of Jordan to poke the ball in at the second attempt and score her 100th Rovers goal in the process.

Flint went in search of an immediate second, making a strong run through the middle before finding the stand rather than the goal. And she created another chance soon after – skilfully skipping past several challenges but couldn’t find the target.

Captain Lynda Shepherd was inches away from getting on the scoresheet late on in the first-half when Niamh Stephenson cleared her header off the line.

Player of the match Flint got the all important second goal seven minutes into the second period.

It was a typically brilliantly finish from the striker as she lifted the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper after collecting a pinpoint pass from Serena Fletcher.

Rovers’ front two were causing all sorts of problems at the top end of the pitch. Flint ran onto Natasha Fenton’s through ball but blazed over the bar from close range and her next shot went narrowly over the bar.

Shepherd had another chance cleared off the line and Gibbs produced a brilliant one-handed diving save to keep out Fenton’s long-range strike as the relentless pressure continued.

The third eventually came courtesy of some individual  brilliance from Jordan She weaved in and out of challenges in the box and emphatically fired the ball into the top corner from a tight angle. 

ROVERS: Gibbons, Jukes, Shepherd (C), Holbrook, Davies, Fenton (Walsh 88), Jordan, Flint, Makin (Taylor 67), McDonald, Fletcher.

Unused: Size.