Devonshire Colts sent North Village tumbling from the Dudley Eve Trophy after a heartstopping Boxing Day penalty shoot-out.

Colts edged out the Red Devils 3-2 on penalties after the sides were deadlocked 1-1 during normal time.

Their win spelled heartache for Village's midfielder Kevin Jennings.

When he blasted the ball against Andre Hendrickson's crossbar, a roar erupted from Colts' fans around the PHC stadium.

It was the furthest the team had progressed in the Dudley Eve Trophy for around 10 years.

Today, they meet PHC at Southampton Oval in the losers semifinal for the right to play Somerset Trojans.

Saturday's penalty shoot-out provided much-needed drama for the holiday crowd.

Colts' striker Ellington Weldon took the first kick -- a feebly-struck shot that Adams, diving to his right, smothered easily.

Elliott Jennings then proceeded to make an even bigger hash of things when he shot straight at Hendrickson.

With groans ringing round the stadium, Mark Ray and Michael Hansey restored some soccer sanity by converting their respective kicks, to make it one goal apiece.

Colts' Yul Wade, however, completely missed the goal, opening the way for Village's Stephen Coddington to fire his side into the lead.

But Village's joy was short-lived.

After Jay Bean had beaten Adams, Village substitute Tito Smith emulated Wade with an embarrassing miss.

And after Craig Smith had shown everybody how to take a penalty with a thunderous drive, Kevin Jennings completed Village's misery.

Just 40 minutes earlier Colts' joy, however, had seemed unlikely when Village broke the stalemate with a classic second-half goal.

Damon Wade started the move, and ended it with textbook finishing.

He evaded several tackles during a gutsy 15-yard run from midfield, before slipping the ball to Philip Clarke out on the left flank.

Clarke took the ball to the corner, and floated a perfect goalmouth cross.

It was met by Wade who headed the ball sweetly over Hendrickson as the hapless 'keeper lunged forward.

The 55th-minute strike was just about what the Devils deserved, although there had been little to separate two sides during a somewhat scrappy affair.

Nineteen minutes later, however, Colts got back on even terms with a goal out of the blue.

About 15 yards out striker Ellington Weldon, with his options seemingly closed off by Village's defence, turned smartly and slotted the ball to the left of Dwayne Adams.

An outstretched Adams, whose handling throughout the afternoon had been excellent, did well to get a hand to it.

The two goals apart, there were few highlights for the large holiday crowd to savour.

Ball control on an unpredictable surface proved troublesome, and too often encouraging moves broke down because of a poor final pass.

It had all promised to be so different at the outset, however, when Colts' powerful striker Craig Smith tried a Pele-style shot from the kick-off.

Adams pulled off a remarkable save to deny Smith's well-struck shot.

The piece of brilliance illuminated a first half, which produced remarkably few clear-cut scoring chances.

Whatever the arguments against, at least a penalty shoot-out dramatically quickens the pulse rate.

A delighted Colts player/coach Lorenzo Symonds exclaimed afterwards: "I always think positively and I thought we would win.

"It's the furthest we've advanced in the Dudley Eve Trophy for around 10 years.'' For Village's coach Joe Trott Christmas self-indulgence had probably explained his side's lethargy.

"We didn't do enough. There wasn't enough running off the ball,'' he said.

Devonshire Colts: A.Hendrickson, J.Samuels, J.Bean, D.Wright, D.Williams, A.

Wilson, M.Ray, H.Trott, L.Hypolite (Y.Wade, 63 mins), C.Smith, E.Weldon.

North Village: D.Adams, K.Grant, W.Augustus, M.Hansey, W.Bassett, D.Wade (M.Wade, 74 mins), K.Jennings, S.Coddington, E.Jennings, P.Simmons (T.Smith, 77 mins), P.Clarke.

Referee: John Bento.

Men of the match: Craig Smith (Devonshire Colts); Dwayne Adams (North Village).

NOW LOOK HERE -- North Village goalkeeper Dwayne Adams has a few choice words for Mark Ray of Devonshire Colts after a first-half run-in on Boxing Day. Ray had the last say, however, with one of the three penalties that put his side into today's losers' semifinals.