Percy Park 80 – 17 Morpeth
Park booked their place in the final of the Northumberland Senior Cup, with an emphatic 12 try win over Morpeth last night. To be fair to the visitors they had one eye on their league game at the weekend against Old Crossleyans, so rested some of their regular 1st XV, but that doesn’t take away the fact that Park took their opportunities and played an exciting brand of 15 man rugby with backs and forwards all working well as a unit.
The try fest was started by Thomas Turnbull on 5 minutes, and then a further 8 first half tries followed from Griffiths (2), Williamson, Shaw, Blair, Dunn, Baldwin and Fidler. Marcus Rutter regained his kicking "mojo" with an excellent display with the boot slotting 10 out of 12 conversions on the night.
With the game won at half time 59 – 0, Park made several substitutions. A further 3 converted tries followed from Barlow, and Stock (2). Morpeth came back with 3 tries of their own with one converted.
The final is to be at Northern FC on 27th April 2011 KO 6.30 where Park will meet Tynedale Raiders, who won the other semi-final at Druid Park against Gosforth 36 – 15.