SKIPPER Ed Phillips scored 22 points as Banbury stormed into the Midlands quarter-finals of the RFU Intermediate Cup with a commanding 52-0 win at Olney.

It was 14-0 in no time, thanks to a penalty try and an Ian Isham score.

Phillips successfully kicked the extras.

Olney were rocking and Phillips went over, before Matt Goode crossed.

Scrum half Phillips landed the kick to make it 26-0 at half-time.

Bulls dominated and Joe Mills breezed over, Phillips slotted the extras.

It was then 45-0 when Isham scored his second try and Jimmy Manley got in on the act.

Phillips converted the latter.

And there was still time for the half back to grab his second try, which he duly converted.

Meanwhile, Bicester lost 13-12 to Reading Abbey in the semi-finals of the Southern Counties Intermediate Cup.

The hosts led 10-0, thanks to a Callum Wylie penalty and Julian Greenway try, which the former converted.

But Bicester dominated the rest of the half and Neil Lake drove over, before George Upton crossed.

Dan Spencer converted the second to make it 12-10.

Wylie kicked a three-pointer on 77 minutes, but the visitors had a chance to clinch victory with a penalty of their own.

However, Spencer’s effort from 40 metres was unsuccessful.