JAMES Hayter bagged a dramatic golden goal winner to fire Cherries into the Southern Section semi-final of the LDV Vans Trophy last night, reports Neil Perrett.

Hayter pounced to see off big-spending Cardiff City seven minutes from the end of overtime to earn Sean O'Driscoll's side a well-deserved victory.

Cherries were on course to progress inside normal time after Wade Elliott had grabbed a stunning opener with just 12 minutes left.

But the Bluebirds, who started with a £3m strike force on show, levelled against the run of play just two minutes later, courtesy of Gavin Gordon's header.

However, Cherries were not to be denied and Hayter, who had seen three earlier chances go by the wayside, made it fourth time lucky when he followed up to score after a Steve Purches shot had come back off the post.

Hayter said: "It was a good scalp for us. Cardiff are flying high in Division Two and they have spent a lot of money on players. I know they may have rested a couple, but they still had a good side out and it was a great result for us.

"I was pleased to put my chance away. The goalkeeper made a good save from me in the first half and I hit the crossbar near the end of normal time and the post just before I scored.

"It would be a great achievement to reach the final and I know everybody would love to play at the Millennium Stadium."

Cherries boss O'Driscoll did not have the luxury of being able to make wholesale changes to his line up, with Neil Young the only player rested.

O'Driscoll said: "I don't think Cardiff can have any complaints."

Our attitude was first class throughout, we tried to play and we competed really well against a side who are not used to losing.

"We could have done without extra-time, especially as we had gone 1-0 up before they equalised from probably the only free header they had all night.

"James Hayter deserved his goal because he worked extremely hard. I had two forwards on the bench who I could have brought on to give someone a breather, but I looked around and didn't think anybody needed to come off because they had all done so well."

Cardiff boss Lennie Lawrence read the riot act to his expensively-assembled squad and said he had no complaints about the result.

Lawrence added: "Bournemouth deserved to win and the only surprise was that it went to extra-time because they should have beaten us in normal time.

"I picked a team I thought was good enough to win the tie but patently it wasn't. This was a very important game for some of my players but I don't think they realised that.

"We had three forwards on the pitch all night and their goalkeeper hardly had a save to make. It was very disappointing and we gave the ball away for fun.

"Bournemouth hit the bar in normal time, then they hit the post in extra-time, then they hit the post again and you thought we were going to nick it but we conspired not to."