DOUGLAS B and Vagabonds B will meet in the first final of the domestic season after both eased through their respective Manx Plate semi-finals on Saturday.
Douglas glided past Castletown 34-5 at Poulsom Park as they bid to become the first side to win the Plate and the Manx Shield in the same season. Town fly half Sam Peel grabbing the southerners’ sole try.
In the other semi, which had been switched from King William’s College to Ballafletcher because of a waterlogged pitch, Vagabonds B ended Emerging Nomads’ four-game winning streak with a 23-5 win.
The final is due to be played on February 4 and will be the third match up between Douglas B and Vagabonds B in just four weeks with the two going head-to-head this weekend in the last game of the Shimmin Wilson Manx Shield season.