Lee heads Rovers to JPT glory

Lee guided home Kevin Thornton's corner in the 110th minute to hand the Yorkshire club victory on their first appearance in a major final.

Rovers supporters were left to make the short journey back to Bristol disappointed, having seen their side bounce back from 2-0 down, only to be denied in extra time.

Jonathan Forte broke the deadlock after just 55 seconds when the usually reliable Steve Phillips and Chris Carruthers hesitated over a bouncing ball eight yards out to allow the competition's leading scorer, Paul Heffernan, to nip in and poke the ball goalwards where Forte gratefully accepted the simple task of tapping into an empty net.

The Bristol backline then stood statuesque as a long clearance by Doncaster goalkeeper Neil Sullivan bounced on the edge of the 18-yard line and Heffernan gave chase before striking the rising ball across Phillips' despairing dive and into the far corner for his ninth goal in the competition.

After the interval Rovers pulled one back when Paul Green was adjudged to have impeded Sammy Igoe's attempts to get on the end of a dangerous Richard Walker cross. Walker took the penalty and although Sullivan got a hand to the ball he only helped it into the bottom left-hand corner.

They were level just after the hour when Walker reacted quickest to his blocked cross to beat Sullivan to the ball and poke into the centre of the penalty area for Igoe to half-volley home from six yards out.

Doncaster were first to threaten in extra-time when Phillips parried James Coppinger's angled shot, and Steve Elliott had to react quickly inside his six-yard area to clear the danger under pressure from a prowling Heffernan before Lee had the final and decisive say.