KEEPER Steve Williams saved a penalty and then scored the winning spot kick as Wanderers beat Beaconsfield Sycob 6-5 on penalties to reach the Berks and Bucks Cup Final.

Willo who also saved a Jason Bowler penalty at the start of extra time emerged as the hero as the defending champions rode their luck to finally overcome the challenge of the plucky non leaguers who even had a goal chalked off.

Wanderers, with first team pros Ian Stonebridge, Russell Martin, Charlie Griffin, Ikechi Anya, Will Antwi and Williams in their ranks failed to score in 120 minutes against the part-timers resulting in the dramatic penalty shootout.

And that went into a sudden death contest as the first five kickers from both sides all scored.

Williams then saved Adrian Sear's kick before dramatically taking the ball off Gary Bunting, who was due to strike next for Wanderers, and slamming home the winner.

Bunting was walking up to take his penalty when Williams took matters into his own hands.

The keeper said: "Steve Brown was shouting at me from the bench to take it so I took the ball off Gary. He didn't look too confident and I was confident that I would score. I was quite calm and never thought that I wouldn't score."

The result was tough on Becky and tough on Sear.

He thought he had won the tie in the first two minutes of extra time when he helped bundle the ball in the back of the net with a touch off defender Russell Martin.

But as the ball was about to cross the line, the referee inexplicably blew his whistle and awarded Beaconsfield a penalty instead of the goal.

Sear said: "We all thought it was a goal. We should be through. Nine times out of ten the referee would have played the advantage."

Too make matters worse for Becky, Williams who could have been sent off, survived unpunished and then dived to his left to save Jason Bowler's resultant penalty.

Becky boss Simon Delahunty said: "We're feeling a little bit hard done by. We played extremely well and we are disappointed that we didn't get the advantage when we scored and the referee pulled it back for a penalty.

"In the normal course of events you would have expected a degree of advantage to be played.

"We're disappointed because we would have liked to get to a cup final, but I'm very proud of them."

But Wycombe could also feel hard done by. Will Antwi who had what looked like a legitimate goal chalked off in the previous round at Aylesbury was foiled again.

His effort, forced home after Becky keeper Julian Taylor had parried Bunting's free kick to him was controversially ruled out for offside.

Stonebridge was also unlucky for Wycombe. He rattled the bar with a 25-yard effort while Griffin and Josh Mulvaney were also thwarted by flying saves from the Man of the Match Becky keeper.

But Sycob were not without their chances and apart from the opening 15 minutes when they could not get to grips with Anya they never looked out of place and grew in confidence as the professionals from Wanderers ran out of ideas.

Allan Arthur got away from the static Antwi but then steered the ball wide of the gaping target and Daniel Willment put a free header from a Bowler free kick just wide.

With neither side scoring a goal that counted, it came down to the lottery of penalties and Sear's saved effort.

Sear said: " I changed the mind at the last minute when I should have stuck to my guns."

Williams said: "We got the job done in the end but we made it hard for ourselves."

Wanderers: Williams, Martin, Bunting, Gregory, Antwi (Douglas 65), Christon (Giambrone 65), Anya, Mulvaney, Griffin, Stonebridge, Grier (Faulkner 90).

Beaconsfield: Taylor, Doney, Cotton, Gradwell, Leach, Willment, Sear, Jeffries (Boateng 84), Pritchard (Gibbs 69), Arthur (Gumbs 69), Bowler.

Berks and Bucks Cup semi-final Wycombe 0, Beaconsfield Sycob 0 AET Wanderers win 6-5 on pens