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\nJuarno Augustus touches down for Ulster<\/p>\n
Ulster booked an Challenge Cup final place after brushing aside Exeter 29-12 following a dominant display in Belfast.<\/p>\n
Iain Henderson’s team will tackle Montpellier or the Dragons in Bilbao on 22 May, and the Chiefs could have few complaints.<\/p>\n
They were unable to crack a resilient and well-organised Ulster side, comfortably finishing second-best as their opponents made the most of home advantage.<\/p>\n
Number eight Juarno Augustus, fly-half Jack Murphy, flanker Dave McCann and hooker Tom Stewart scored tries, with scrum-half Nathan Doak adding a penalty and three conversions.<\/p>\n
Exeter replied through tries for number eight Ross Vintcent and wing Campbell Ridl, plus one Henry Slade conversion, but Ulster effortlessly eased away from them during the second period.<\/p>\n
Doak drifted a 10th-minute penalty attempt wide, and while Ulster remained on the front foot they then saw a try disallowed after full-back Mike Lowry crossed, being ruled out for foul play earlier in the move.<\/p>\n
Exeter should have been 10 points down, such was Ulster\u2019s profligacy, although Chiefs then wasted their first scoring chance as a Slade penalty missed the target and ended a scoreless opening quarter.<\/p>\n
\nJuarno Augustus touches down for Ulster<\/p>\n
Ulster continued to press, and the deadlock was broken 12 minutes before half-time when they were rewarded for patient work by their forwards, with Augustus touching down and Doak converting.<\/p>\n
Exeter could not get their attacking game going, but Ulster then saw wing Jacob Stockdale yellow-carded following head-on-head contact with Chiefs\u2019 England star Immanuel Feyi-Waboso.<\/p>\n
Feyi-Waboso departed for a head injury assessment, and Exeter immediately made their temporary numerical advantage count by drawing level as Ulster regrouped courtesy of a Vintcent score and Slade conversion.<\/p>\n
Exeter\u2019s hopes of inflicting further punishment before the break were dashed, though, and Doak nudged Ulster into a 10-7 interval lead through a short-range penalty.<\/p>\n
Feyi-Waboso did not return for the second half, with Chiefs soon falling further behind following some sharp work from Ulster\u2019s attack near their line that resulted in a try for Murphy.<\/p>\n
Doak\u2019s conversion opened up a 10-point advantage, putting the ball firmly in Exeter\u2019s court for a response, yet Ulster continued to control possession and territory.<\/p>\n
And they gained a fitting reward after strong work by replacement wing Ethan McIlroy, whose pace stretched Exeter\u2019s defence and set up a try for McCann.<\/p>\n
It left Exeter 15 points adrift entering the final quarter, but Ulster had no intention of taking their foot off the accelerator and Stewart claimed try number four after a powerful close-range maul with try number four.<\/p>\n
Exeter\u2019s miserable evening then reached a suitably fitting conclusion when full-back Ben Hammersley was yellow carded, leaving them emphatically down and out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster booked an Challenge Cup final place after brushing aside Exeter 29-12 following a dominant display in Belfast.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-429246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}