Gosport & Fareham's dreams of a repeat Powergen Intermediate Cup final visit to Twickenham came to an abrupt halt at the last 32 stage as they were swept away by a former Olympic 4x100 metre athlete in cherry and white.

Todd Blythe, a New Zealander, ran in a hat-trick to help his side to a comfortable 32-0 win over the injury-ravaged peninsular outfit.

The home side restricted the Cornish visitors for nearly half an hour before Blythe sped in for his first and centre Adrian Downing added a second before the break.

Three more tries, two for the full-back who ran in the 1996 Atlanta Games for his country and has also performed for the All Blacks sevens outfit in a number of IRB tournaments, tormented the Gosport defence.

Five tries conceded and no points bagged.

Skipper Simon Burns - whose day went from bad to worse as he is likely to be sidelined for up to a month with a shoulder injury sustained midway through the second half - admitted his charges were beaten by the better side.

"Everything they did was well drilled," he felt. "They always had players in support and they didn't seem to be thinking what they were doing - it was all so instinctive.

Havant wanted to perform considerably better than they did on their last visit to Old Patesians. They didn't, but still managed to claim a bonus point in going down 27-20 in National Division Three South.

A truly awful first-half performance that had Havant director of rugby Adam King questioning his team's commitment left them trailing 27-5 but, with the substantial slope in their favour in the second half, they almost turned the game on its head, finally turning their second-half pressure into points.

Although a score was ruled out when Liam Davenport crossed, they made amends when Rob Lawrence dived over and within two minutes Neil McGovern had cut the arrears to just ten points.

A Liam Davenport penalty further sliced back the Patesians lead and Cam Avery almost powered his way into the corner at the death.

But King was bitterly disappointed.

"If we are to stay in this division, we cannot defend like that," he said.

Alton's rerun of last weekend's league clash with Farnham did not bring about the desired result as they slipped to a 17-11 reverse, which keeps them entrenched in the bottom two of London Three South-West.