MALVERN completed a successful season by beating Old Saltleians 53-12  in the North Midlands Shield final at Dudley Kingswinford.

The 2002 North Midlands Cup champions followed up winning promotion from Midlands Two West (South) via a play-off.

Malvern's left wing and captain Tom Hale crossed twice in the first seven minutes.

Former Gloucester player Rob Cook converted both tries from the touchline for the Spring Lane side.

Malvern lost Hale with a shoulder injury but his replacement Connor Giggle went over for an unconverted try after 30 minutes.

Old Salts' forward pressure was rewarded when blindside George Ward burrowed over for an unconverted try from a line-out drive.

Malvern had been down to 14 men at the time with number eight Jack Curtis in the sin-bin for persistent team offending.

Playmaker Cook popped up in attack to put openside flanker Sam Parsons in for the fourth try which the director of rugby converted from wide out.

Wing Ben King scored on the overlap with Cook’s conversion stretching the lead.

Old Salts hit back with a solo try from full-back Michael Ho and Joel James added the extras.

But Malvern smuggled Parsons over from a driving line-out before Jon Wills, Giggle and Curtis all scored tries from flowing attacks to seal a convincing victory.

Meanwhile, Droitwich gained some consolation for losing in the RFU Intermediate Cup final at Twickenham by beating Shrewsbury 19-7 to win the North Midlands Shield Plate.

All the points were in the first half as the Midlands Two West (South) champions, twice winners of the Shield, scored tries through number eight Phil Horton, centre Matt Handford and full-back Matt Barnes.

Newport won the North Midlands Cup for the third time with a hat-trick of tries from centre Henry Vaka setting up their 40-16 win over Bromsgrove.

Bromsgrove, a division below Newport, led twice in the first half with two penalties from fly-half Richard Mahony who also kicked a third.

There was a well-worked try for wing Ollie Bache which Mahony converted.