Doncaster 22 Bedford Blues 12

Doncaster: Tries: Tau (17), W Davies (45), Bailey (75). Cons: Woodrow 2. Pen: Woodrow (73).

Blues: Tries: Kettle (21), Page (66). Con: Pritchard

Doncaster ended their best ever season of National League rugby with third spot in National One after another good home win.

They were first on the scoreboard with a try from prop Ngalu Tau on 17 minutes and Mark Woodrow converted it for 7-0.

Four minutes later and the visitors were level with a try from Adam Kettle and James Pritchard converted and the sides went in level at the break. 

Five minutes into the second half and Doncaster were back in front after a try from left wing Wes Davies and Woodrow again converted.

Back came the Blues with replacement back Alex Page going over and they were two points back with Pritchard missing the conversion.

Woodrow edged the home side three more points ahead with a 73^rd minute penalty goal before the win was sealed when the other winger Paul Bailey touched down a few minutes later.  

Otley 10 London Welsh 12

Otley: Try: Smith (40). Con: Shuttleworth. Pen: Shuttleworth. 

Welsh: Tries: Greenwood (62), Cox (73). Con: Pugh.

Otley need to win and pick up a bonus point to have a realistic chance of staying up and hope Moseley lost without a bonus point but neither happened and Otley were relegated to National Two.

The home side led 10-0 at half time after a 19^th minute penalty goal form full back Ian Shuttleworth and a 40^th minute try from winger Danny Smith converted by Shuttleworth. Smith finished the season as the clubs leading try scorer with 11. 

It took till the 62^nd minute for the score to change with left winger James Greenwood going over for the Welsh and Dylan Pugh adding the conversion.

The winning score came on 73 minutes when No 8 Paul Cox went over for a try and a two point lead which they kept till the end.    

Waterloo 20 Moseley 33

Waterloo: Tries: Payne (3), Hopgood (47). Cons: Davies 2. Pens: Davies 2(37, 43).

Moseley: Tries: Bressington 2 (24, 30), Rodwell (53). Cons: Thomas 3. Pens: Thomas 4 (8, 15, 21, 39).

Moseley made sure they were not relegated with this away win at Waterloo and guaranteed themselves National One rugby for next season but with Otley losing at home it did not matter but better to be safe than sorry.

Waterloo were first on the scoreboard with centre Freeman Payne going over after just three minutes and Alex Davies adding the conversion.

Ollie Thomas kicked the visitors 9-7 ahead with three penalty goals and when he converted a Nathan Bressington try on 24 minutes they were 16-7 in front.

On the half hour mark they went 23-7 ahead with Bressington completing a double. Late in the half Davies and Thomas exchanged penalty goal and Moseley went in 26-10 ahead.

Waterloo were right back in it after 48 minutes after Davies kicked a second penalty goal and then converted a try form prop Jonathan Hopgood to make it 26-20.

On 53 minutes Moseley went 33-20 ahead after No 8 James Rodwell touched down and Thomas converted.

Plymouth Albion 22 Leeds Tykes 22

Albion: Try: Van Eyk (3), Arscott 2 (43, 48). Cons: Van Eyk 2. Pen: Van Eyk (66).

Tykes: Tries: McDonald (12), Biggs (17), Welding (37), Lock (60). Con: Hinton.

Champions Leeds Tykes were held to a draw in their final game of the season at Brickfields by Plymouth Albion to finish the season five points clear of the Earth Titans. . 

Albion made a good start and were 7-0 ahead after three minutes after centre Regardt Van Eyk went over for a try and added the conversion.

By half time the Tykes were 15-7 ahead after they ran in three unconverted tries.

First on the scoreboard was prop Mike McDonald followed by the winger Richard Welding and Tom Biggs.

Two tries in the opening eight minutes of the second half form right wing Tom Arscott put Albion back in front at 19-15 with Van Eyk converting the second of the tries.

No 8 Mark Lock put the Tykes back in front with a try and this time Leigh Hinton converted as they claimed the try bonus point and went 22-19 ahead.

The game was settled on a penalty goal form Van Eyk on 66 minutes which levelled it up at 22 all.

Pertemps Bees 36 Nottingham 43

Bees: Tries: Palm 2 (7, 61), Nuthall 2 (12, 66), Spee (47), Qera (56). Cons: Higgins 3.  

Nottingham: Tries: Fowkes (23), Molenaar (41), Sherriff (51), Thompson (54), Penalty try (69), Nirmalendran (73). Cons: Barlow, Stenhouse 4. Pen: Barlow (5).

Good away win for Nottingham over the Pertemps Bees to consolidate ninth place in the table and finish three points behind the Bees. 

It was a tight first half with the visitors just edging it 15-14 with the home side getting tries through full back Matthew Nutthal and winger Kyle Palm whilst for Nottingham there were tries for prop Neil Fowkes and centre Tim Molenaar.

Seven minutes into the second half and the Bees were back in front after a try from the other winger Reece Spee and Jon Higgins made it three conversions out of three for 21-15.

The lead last just four minutes before flanker Luke Sherriff went over and Neil Stenhouse converted. They went 29-21 ahead three minutes later when second half replacement Ben Thompson went over and Stenhouse was again on target. 

Three tries in 10 minutes turned it round and the Bees went into a 36-29 lead after both Palm and Nutthal completed double after flanker Akapusi Qera got the first on 56 minutes. 

Three minutes later and it was all square after the referee awarded Nottingham a penalty try and Stenhouse converted.

The winning score came n 72 minutes when full back Rohan Nirmalendran went over and Stenhouse put over his fourth conversion of the afternoon to wrap up the win.

Exeter Chiefs 43 Sedgley Park 21

Chiefs: Tries: Murdoch 4 (3, 35, 44, 49), Yapp (10), Penalty try (26), Slade (40). Cons: Yapp 4.

Park: Tries: Hall (23), Jones 2 (42, 54). Cons: Riley 3.

Exeter Chiefs confirmed fourth place in the table after this home win over Sedgley Park out scoring them seven tries to three.

They were ahead on three minutes with left wing Alistair Murdoch going over for a try and Tony Yapp adding the conversion. They went 14-0 ahead seven minutes later when Yapp went over and added the extras.  

On 23 minutes Park were on the scoreboard with centre Chris Hall going over and Matt Riley converting.

The Chiefs took control after that with three more tries before half time to lead 33-7 and have the try bonus point in the bag. They were awarded a penalty try and Murdoch got a second try and replacement forward Chad Slade got the other and Yapp added a couple of conversions. 

Two minutes into the second half and fly half Phil Jones touched down for Park and Riley again converted.

We then had Murdoch completing his hat trick two minutes later and five minutes after that equalling the club record of four tries in a match to stretch the lead to 43-14.

Jones went on to complete a double for Park on 54 minutes in what turned out to be the final score of the match with the fourth quarter scoreless.

Coventry 20 Cornish Pirates 32

Coventry:

Pirates: Tries: Motusaga (32), Penalty try (46), McAtee (75), Parsons (79), Barrett (80). Cons: Di Bernardo 2. Pen: Di Bernardo (27).

The Cornish Pirates picked up their 20^th win of the season and finished in fifth place in the table with 101 points.

Coventry were first on the scoreboard with full back Ben Russell putting over a 9^th minute penalty goal and on 20 minutes they went 8-0 ahead with No 8 Tom Johnson getting the games first try.

Seven minutes later and Alberto Di Bernardo put over a penalty goal for the Pirates and five minutes later they were level after flanker Iva Motusaga went over for a try. Late in the half Coventry regained the lead when wing Ben Toft went over for an unconverted try.

Six minutes into the second half and the Pirates were in front after they were awarded a penalty try to lead 15-13.

Nine minutes later and Coventry were back in front with a try from their other winger George Dixon and Russell converted to make it 20-15.

The lead last nearly 20 minutes before Pirates wing Rhodri McAtee went over and Di Bernardo converted to make it 22-20.       

In injury time the visitors ran in two more tries to run out 12 winners as replacement backs Sam Parsons and Henry Barrett touched down. 

Newbury 21 Earth Titans 57

Newbury: Tries: Chance (55), Rainbow (62), Nutt (63). Cons: Defty 3.

Titans: Tries: Bedford 5, Tuohy (12), Bornman 2 (20, 79), Claassens 4 (27, 37, 58, 77), Turnbull (70). Cons: Steenson 6.

Earth Titans finished off the season with a comprehensive win at Newbury after doing most of the damage in the first half as they built up a 29-0 lead.

They were ahead after five minutes with a try from scrum half and captain Joe Bedford and it was 12-0 on 12 minutes with winger Brian Tuohy going over and this time Gareth Steenson converted.

Flanker Jamie Bornman got the third and them there were two for winger Eric Claassens and they had the bonus point in the bag and well on their way to their 23^rd win of the season.

15 minutes into the second half and the home side were off the mark with second row Jonathan Chance going over and the trusty boot of Nick Defty adding the extras.

Three minutes later Claassens completed his hat trick and they were 36-7 ahead. The home side did then get a couple more tries as replacement back row man Chris Rainbow and left wing Martin Nutt touched down and Defty added the conversions.

The Titans were not finished and ran in three tries in the final ten minutes to pass the 50 point mark and Claassens ended the match with four tries and moved onto 11 for the season. Steenson finished the match with six conversions and that took him to 79 for the season the division’s leader in that category.