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Last year's beaten EDF Energy National Trophy finalists Exeter Chiefs are in the final again after they beat Nottingham 16-8 in a game played out in a continuous downpour at Sandy Park on Saturday. Meanwhile just down the road at Plymouth, in the other semi-final, Northampton Saints took on Plymouth Albion in similar conditions, winning 8-22.
The Chiefs and Saints will line up on cup finals day at Twickenham Stadium, when the EDF Energy Cup, EDF Energy National Trophy and EDF Energy Intermediate Cup finals are all played, on Saturday April 12. The full finals' line-up is now known and Birkenhead Park will play Chester in the EDF Energy Intermediate Cup final.
Hartpury College take on Wheatley Hills in the EDF Energy Senior Vase final and Doncaster Phoenix are up against Castleford in the EDF Energy Junior Vase. Both games will be played at Twickenham Stadium on Saturday May 10.
EDF Energy National Trophy
Semi-finals
Exeter Chiefs 16 – 8 Nottingham
Plymouth Albion 8 – 22 Northampton Saints
EDF Energy Intermediate Cup
Semi-finals
Bracknell 12 – 16 Birkenhead Park
Chester 34 – 6 Newport
EDF Energy Senior Vase
Semi-finals
Sutton Coldfield 3 – 40 Hartpury College
Wheatley Hills Doncaster WH 15 – 13 Cullompton
EDF Energy Junior Vase
Semi-finals
Doncaster Phoenix 18 – 13 Chiswick
Tewkesbury 6 – 7 Castleford | 
EDF Energy Cup News
