Any form of representation in the Tetley's Bitter Cup from this part of the world disappeared on Saturday when Havant, Dorchester and Swanage & Wareham were all eliminated at the second round stage.

Swanage went closest to success in only losing 9-7 at Blackheath, but Havant were defeated 32-13 at home by Penzance/Newlyn and Dorchester were walloped 45-0 at Bracknell.

Havant's forwards competed extremely well against experienced professional opponents, but the backs struggled when the ball was moved out wide by the Cornish side's speedy backs and the side as a whole gave Penzance too much respect according to the Havant joint coach, Simon Morgan.

Syd Claffey gave Havant the lead with a penalty and later in the first-half landed another, but he unfortunately missed two more that would have kept Havant in touch so Penzance turned round with a 25-6 interval lead.

Claffey missed another penalty immediately on the resumption, then Penzance increased their lead midway through the second period with a fourth try that was converted. Havant kept plugging away and a minute into injury-time scored a consolation try through Nick French that was goaled by Claffey.

With Havant, Dorchester and Swanage all falling by the wayside, there is now no representation on the South Coast until Exeter.

l Isle of Wight Women made it two wins out of two in their league programme when they defeated Metropolitan Police 29-24 yesterday. Lynn Burford (2), Sarah Emms, Toni Betteridge (tries), Betteridge (2 conversions) scored for the Island, who would have had two more tries had Emms touched down instead of running over the dead ball line.

Trojans began their league campaign with a 12-5 defeat at Folkestone. The hosts built a 12-0 interval advantage in a hard fought game with two evenly matched packs, but Trojans fought back well and scored a second-half try through Holly Humphries.