A JUBILANT HMS Seahawk Rugby team romped into the Rugby Navy Cup final after a convincing win against HMS Sultan.

With home advantage in their favour and the familiar surroundings of the Cornish Pirates ground in Penzance, the RNAS Culdrose scored first after 23 minutes with the first of their four tries, but were pegged back within two minutes by a Sultan penalty finding the gap between the sticks. With a keenest to push the score further to their advantage Seahawk quickly put away another try and conversion.

Losing a player to the sin-bin at 30 mins didn't stop them and they slotted a penalty away before the break, and at half time were 15 - 3 ahead.

Two more tries to Seahawk after the break and an unexpected one from the Sultan engineers, after a rare voyage out of their half wrapped up a convincing win of 25-8 to the Fleet Air Arm and HMS Seahawk.

The final will be against 40 Commando RM at Devonport, Plymouth on December 2.

"Awesome, absolutely awesome," said LPTI James ‘Arnie’ Arnold, HMS Seahawk team manager. "We didn't expect Sultan to come down here after a six and half hour drive to be that strong and competitive. We set our game plan and wore them down, it took us a while to get on the scoreboard, but it doesn't matter we got the points. It's two weeks of graft now before the final. We've got a lot to do."