Jersey seal clean sweep over Guernsey in Siam Cup

Jersey reclaimed the men's and women's Siam Cup titles with victories over Guernsey at St Peter.

Jersey's men scored five tries as they cruised to a 36-11 win over their rivals.

Earlier Jersey's women beat their Sarnian rivals 30-13 thanks in part to a Taye Boake-Yiadom hat-trick as both sides avenged losses at Footes Lane 12 months ago.

Jersey led 10-0 after 32 minutes thanks to Jerry Sexton's try and an 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 while 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 scored 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.

"We're ecstatic," Jersey captain Evan Whitson told BBC Radio Jersey.

"It was a good performance by us, we knew that Guernsey were coming and we just came out firing in the first 20 minutes.

"We're really chuffed with that performance, there was a lot of emotion this week and we really built on that throughout the week.

"Last year they blew us off the park in the first 20 minutes, so we knew we had to come out really firing.

"The first lineout we came hard and managed to reset and score early and we're glad we've got the result."

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 with 20 minutes left.

Guernsey saw Ness Brown sent to the sin bin soon after and Jersey's Willow Le Luan went over to complete the win before a late Guernsey consolation try.

"We really wanted it today and we're all buzzing getting that cup back on home turf," Boake-Yiadom said after the win. "We wanted it and we got it.

"I think it doesn't matter who you are, I'm going to run through and I'm going to get to that try line.

"That try line is my happy place, I love it and I'm just buzzing."

Guernsey head coach Steve Evans felt his side gave their all in the defeat.

"We've had a really good season this season and it would have been nice to win the Siam, that would have been the icing on the cake," he said.

"As long as the girls can look at themselves and say 'I gave 100%' we can't ask any more. I just think we were beaten by the better team on the day."