England U18 international Marland Yarde scored a hat-trick of tries as Whitgift beat Newcastle 34-10 in the Daily Mail U18 Cup Final at Twickenham.

After Newcastle enjoyed the majority of possession in the opening 20 minutes it was Whitgift who took the lead.

Centre Elliot Daly burst through the middle of the Newcastle pack and laid the ball off to Yarde to convert under no pressure in the corner.

Daly lined up the conversion but could only hit it past the post.

Whitgift grew in confidence after that and five minutes later Daly added another three points with a penalty in front of the posts after Newcastle were penalised for offside.

On 28 minutes, Yarde doubled his try tally for the afternoon when he intercepted a wayward pass and ran almost half the pitch to score.

Daly converted to give the South Croydon school a 15-0 lead.

Two minutes later Newcastle got a penalty of their own and Joel Hodgson kicked between the posts to get them on the scoresheet.

Before the break both sides had a player sin-binned in separate incidents, Herbie Butler for Whitgift and Fraser Balmain for Newcastle.

Nine minutes into the second half Hodgson has another chance to reduce the deficit as White was penalised for holding on to the ball but he opted to drill the ball and put it wide.

He was punished a minute later when Charlie Hopkins charged down his kick and Tom Archer ran through to score in the corner.

Daly converted a superb kick to put Whitgift 22-3 in front.

Whitgift put the game beyond Newcastle with 14 minutes left when Yarde's break set up winger Lawrence Okoye to power over in the corner, though Daly missed the conversion.

Yarde scored his hat-trick when he picked up the ball from a base of a ruck in his own half in the 70th minute and powered though Hodgson's challenge to scored under the posts, with Daly converting.

Hodgson powered over late on for Newcastle and converted but he could not spoil Whitgift's day.

15 Chris Crane (22 Will Smith), 14 James Canty, 13 Marland Yarde, 12 Elliot Daly, 11 Lawrence Okoye (21 Jack Munnery), 10 Rob White (16 Anthony Whitfield), 9 Jamie Stevenson, 1 Jack Valler (20 Tom Nicholls), 2 Charlie Hopkins ©, 3 Harry Williams, 4 Tom Archer, 5 George Merrick (19 Leigh Robinson), 6 Olly Dickerson (18 Matthew Hilton), 7 Herbie Butler, 8 Harry Ledger (17 Jamie Thoroughgood).