WORCESTER Warriors went over in the final play of the game to book a spot in the Champ Rugby finals.
A battling performance saw Warriors be the first side to beat Ealing Trailfinders since April 2025, taking a 29-34 away win after Jake Garside flew over in the final seconds.
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Warriors took it to the hosts early on and drew first blood after earning a penalty close to the Ealing line. Gloucester-loanee Hugh Bokenham powered through to snipe over and earn the early score.
Billy Twelvetrees continued his strong form from the tee to increase the early lead to seven.
And moments later Warriors continued their hot start, going over once more in similar fashion.
After repeated attempts to muscle through it was Siva Naulago who found success to break and increase the advantage to 12.
With 25 minutes gone and the vast majority of the action having unfolded in the Ealing half, the visitors added their third.
Some deft handling saw Will Reed, Louis Brown and Naulago link up to send the Fijian through to race in, unchallenged, under the posts.
Twelvetrees added two more before Ealing went up the other way and got on the board almost immediately after the restart.
After a line-out in the corner, Michael Dykes was the man to spot a gap in the defensive line and race in with Dan Jones duly increasing the Ealing account to seven.
Ealing continued to rally back after the score and added another after a sustained period of pressure.
Connor Oliver was able to snipe over in the corner to pull more back from the Warriors lead, cutting the difference to just seven points.
With 10 minutes played of the second half, Ealing drew level after utilising the player overload out wide to send Dykes through into space, to cross for his second.
Jones found success from the tee to see nothing split the two sides with a half hour to play.
With 20 minutes to play Ealing put themselves in the driving seat for the first time in the game.
A penalty allowed the hosts to set up for the line-out in the corner, with hooker Scott Buckley finding a way over through the driving maul.
With the pressure on, up stepped Will Reed.
The fly-half delivered a moment of brilliance to grubber ahead, race through and dive on his own kick to draw the scores level with little over 10 minutes to play.
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Having missed a penalty to win the game from a similar spot in January, Reed was on the mark soon after his score to add three to the Warriors lead, going into the final exchanges.
But it looked like misery for Warriors, as Ealing fly-half Jones broke over in the corner with mere seconds left of the match, seemingly securing Ealing's spot in the final.
However Warriors raced the other way from kick-off, winning back possession before Naulago found Garside on the wing to fly by his man and dive over to secure victory.
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