Check out the action from the semi finals played over the weekend in the battle to reach Twickenham.
Powergen Shield Semi Finals
Waterloo 27 Wakefield 25
Waterloo: Tries: Blyth (52), Payne (59). Con: Handley. Pens: Handley 5 (2, 15, 28, 76, 80).
Wakefield: Tries: Wigham 2 (12, 46), Wilson (41), Rule (69). Con: Murphy. Pen: Murphy (8).
Referee: Robin Goodliffe. HT: 9-10.
Waterloo: R Hitchmough: N Kerfoot, F Payne, G Davies, J Van Deventer, A Handley, J Broxson (C Aikman 73): D Kotze, C Tyms (D Giles 47-55), L Bone, P White, D Mercer (C Wolfenden 47), N Tchakoute, D Palmer (D Smith 47), D Blyth.
Wakefield: R Duckett (W Spragg 40): J Feeley, A Metcalfe, P Murphy, M Kirkby, N Wainwright, A Brown (D Castle 66): M O’Keefe, J Lawn (S Worsley 66), R List (A Gluth 40), R Hughes (W Cronje 20-28, 80), J Rule, G Wilson, R Wigham (M Sowerby 80), J Skurr.
National Three North side Waterloo reached Twickenham with this last gasp win over National One side Wakefield at Blundellsands on Saturday.
Waterloo went ahead in the 2nd minute with Tony Handley slotting over a penalty goal. Wakefield centre Peter Murphy cancelled that out on eight minutes and four minutes later was converting the games opening try with flanker Richard Wigham crossing the home line. By half time Handley had reduced the visitors lead to a point with two more penalty goals to trail 10-9.
In the second half Wakefield were quick out of the blocks with two tries in the opening six minutes of the half as flanker Glen Wilson and a second for Wigham saw the visitors 20-9 ahead and a trip to Twickenham looked on the cards.
Waterloo though had other ideas and by the hour mark were ahead. Captain and No 8 David Blyth went over for a 52nd minute try and just before the hour mark centre Freeman Payne crossed the Wakefield line and with Handley converting they were 21-20 ahead.
Wakefield went ahead again on 69 minutes with second row Jimmy Rule scoring an unconverted try and a 25-21 lead.
Handley got the home side to within a score on 76 minutes with a penalty goal. The winning kick form Handley came four minutes into injury time to book their trip to Twickenham.
Penzance & Newlyn 15 Bristol 40
Pirates: Tries: Lord (37), A Fatialofa (64). Con: Pellow. Pen: Evans (11).
Shoguns: Tries: Cox (44), El Abd (69), Stanojevic (76). Cons: Gray 2. Pens: Gray 4 (25, 38, 39, 53). DG: Gray 2 (7, 67), Hodgson (29).
Referee: Nigel Higginson. HT: 10-15.
Penzance: S Thomas: V Olonga (J Hawken 74), M Fatialofa, A Fatialofa, M Jess, S Evans (M Scrivener 34-36, 64), R Pellow: A Morcom (D Seal 40), V Ma’asi, N Adams, M Morgan, D Whitehead, L Waqanivere, J Lord (D Farani 58), J Bearman.
Bristol: S Marsden: M Stanojevic, J Hawker, S Cox, O Evans (D Hayward 40), D Gray, P Hodgson: A Clarke, S Nelson, D Hilton, O Kohn, O Hodge, C Morgan, J El Abd, R Martin-Redman.
This looked a close match on paper but in the end Bristol ran away with it in a convincing win after a tight first half.
Danny Gray gave the home side the lead in the 7th minute with a penalty goal but Steve Evans cancelled this out four minutes later with a penalty for the home side.
Gray gave the visitors the lead again on 25 minutes with a penalty goal and four minutes later they were 9-3 ahead with scrum half Paul Hodgson slotting over a drop goal.
Three minutes before the break and the Pirates went ahead with a try from flanker Josh Lord that Ricky Pellow converted for 10-9.
Gray though kicked two late penalty goals to send Bristol in 15-10 ahead.
In the second half centre Sam Cox got the first Bristol try four minutes in and with Gray adding the extras they went 22-10 ahead and Gray made it a 15 point lead on 53 minutes with his fourth penalty of the afternoon.
Just after the hour mark the Pirates got a second try through centre Alaifatu Fatialofa but the Shoguns finished the stronger with 15 points in the final 13 minutes. Gray added another drop goal and flanker Joe El Abd and winger Marko Stanojevic went over for tries to wrap up the win and take them to Twickenham for the final against Waterloo on April 17th.
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