Playing their final Regional 2 South West game of the season away at Stafford Park to Cullompton on Saturday, Penzance & Newlyn completed the double against their Devon opponents.

First half tries for the Pirates were scored by hooker Wes Eddy, centre Callum Walsh, and wing Harvey Stone. Wing Ben Wragg converted two, but it was ‘Cully’ who held a narrow 21-19 points advantage come the break.

In the second half, further Pirates’ tries were scored by man of the match Walsh, Eddy, and Wragg, who also slotted a penalty and two conversions.

After having gained promotion last season, in their 2025/26 campaign, competing at a higher level, the commendably eighth-placed Pirates overall won 10 of their 22 league matches played, with a points ratio of 644 for and 561 against.

Speaking after their final league encounter, Pirates’ head coach Murray Westren commented:

“The game was a typical end-of-season affair, with scoring a little easy for both teams.

“Having said that, to fight back first from 21-7 down and then 33-19 down showed great fight and character, and we scored some really nice tries from individual moments to finish the league season on a high.”

Cullompton: 15 Josh Luxon 14 Zac May 13 Peter Aitken 12 Luke Shergold 11 Tom Birchall 10 Lewis Gliddon 9 Harrison Blake-Pead; 1 Marcus Pengelly 2 Serie Hurrell 3 Damian Jarvis 4 Sam Cooke 5 Adam Jarrett 6 George Wolfenden 7 Jack Grandfield 8 Joshua Mammola.

Replacements: 16 Oli Mitchell 17 Rob Luxon 18 Brendan Cherry.

Penzance & Newlyn: 15 Cadan Thomas 14 Ben Wragg 3 Callum Walsh 12 Josh Semmens 11 Harvey Stone 10 Oscar Marr 9 Dan Rhys Evans; 1 Dylan Arthur 2 Wes Eddy 3 Declan Prowse 4 Ben Martin 5 Nick Nowell 6 Tom Hutton 7 Sam Carroll 8 Stan Somers (captain).

Replacements: 16 Joe Best 17 Connor Bick 18 John Vincent.

Man of the Match: Callum Walsh.

(Attention for the Penzance & Newlyn RFC’s 1st team now turns to Cornwall KO Cup action when on Saturday they will face tough opposition away to St. Austell at Tregorrick Park - ko 2.30pm)