Barrow Island and Millom will contest Barrow and District’s prestigious Barton Townley Trophy competition on a date still to be confirmed.
The two semi-finals were staged at Craven Park yesterday with the Islanders coming from behind to beat Dalton 24-18 while Millom had a comfortable passage, 60-0 against Roose Pioneers.
But Millom’s progress was marred by a serious injury to talented centre Jonty Peters who suffered a badly broken leg in the first half.
Barrow Island had been 14-6 behind at half-time as Dalton had controlled the first period, penning their opponents in their own half for long periods.
High competition rates and good field position enabled them to dominate the 40 minutes.
But the Islanders regrouped at half time and turned the game round, aided by errors and ill-discipline from Dalton.
It enabled them to build-up a head of steam and they finished the game the stronger, clinching victory in the last 10 minutes.
Callum Leach (2) and Tom Farren (2) shared the Dalton tries with just the one conversion from Pat Kelly.
Barrow Island roared back to win it with tries from Ellis Archer, Max Anderson Moore, Aidan Wright and Finn Dutton. Archer landed four goals.
Millom had been in action earlier and the unfortunate Peters actually put them ahead with a try which he converted.
In fact he added conversions to tries from Ricky Donoghue, Tom Askew and Hadley Thompson before his unfortunate injury.
The half ended 38-0 to Millom as there were further tries from Thompson, Askew and Rio Walker, one converted by Donoghue.
In the second half, Josh Blinkhorn, Jonathan Hodgson, Owen High and Donoghue scored further tries. Donoghue converted two and the final two extras were added by Braith Lupton.
Wishing a speedy recovery to Peters, the Millom club said: “A massive thanks to everyone who helped make sure Jonty got to hospital in a speedy manner, especially Stephen Cummings for kindly driving him there.”
