DYLAN Harbour scored four tries, including a late match winner, as Devonport Services III won the David Butt Trophy at the Rectory on Saturday.
Services III beat their Exmouth counterparts in the Devon RFU competition to cap a fine season for the club, whose first and second teams had both won their leagues.
Devonport’s third string, who hope to enter the league structure next season, did find themselves 12-0 behind early on against Exmouth III.
But they finally got going in the final 15 minutes of the first half and took a 19-15 lead at the interval.
Harbour got them underway with a counterattack try in the 25th minute. Exmouth dropped the ball and the pacey back hacked it forward a number of times before winning the race to gather it and score. Olly Mytton added the conversion.
Exmouth did kick a penalty but Harbour then scored a second try, which Mytton converted before fellow back Elliott Pocknell bagged a third try for the home team just before the break.
After the interval, Harbour bagged his hat-trick with a fine effort, once again converted by Mytton.
But Exmouth III refused to lie down and they went back in front with two tries.
It looked like Services III were going to suffer another one-score cup final defeat, having lost to Old Techs in the RNEC Cup final, but this time it was them that won it late in the game with Harbour running in from halfway to seal their victory.