Jersey seal clean sweep over Guernsey in Siam Cup
Jersey men ease to victory as ex-pros star
Jersey led 10-0 after 32 minutes thanks to Jerry Sexton's try and a Aaron Penberthy penalty.Ciaran McGann's penalty made it 10-3 before former Jersey Reds, Exeter and London Irish forward Sexton - the brother of Ireland legend Johnny - made it 17-3 before a second McGann penalty reduced the deficit to 17-6 at the break.Another former Red - ex-Wasps and Leicester forward Guy Thompson - extended Jersey's lead to 21 points when he crossed six minutes into the second period.Penberthy crossed for Jersey's fourth try soon after before another former Red Scott van Breda made it 36-6 with 12 minutes left. Anthony Armstrong went over for a consolation try for Guernsey with five minutes left.
Jersey regain Siam Cup after 2024 defeat
Earlier in the day Jersey's women avenged their last-minute 17-15 loss last year as they crushed Guernsey 30-13. Boake-Yiadom scored a hat-trick for the hosts as they ran in six tries to regain the title from their Sarnian rivals. Aideen Le Prevost have Guernsey a sixth-minute lead, but Katie de la Cloche made it 5-5 with a 26th-minute try. Guernsey had India Healing sin-binned four minutes later and Boake-Yiadom got her first soon after before a Ness Brown penalty made it 10-8 at half time. But de la cloche went over soon after the restart before Boake-Yiadom scored two quickfire tries to extend the lead to 25-8 despite with 20 minutes left. Guernsey saw Ness Brown sent to the sin bin soon after and Willow Le Luan completed the win before a late Guernsey consolation.
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