Bognor and Chichester are planning a national cup challenge after scoring impressive knockout wins.

The West Sussex neighbours will join Haywards Heath in the draw for the third round of the Powergen Intermediate Cup, which is released tomorrow.

Bognor were locked at 14-14 midway through their tie at Brighton but pulled away to win 38-14.

Tim Stickland and Rob Parry scored the first-half tries which kept Bognor on terms, Parry adding both conversions. Stickland, Jonny Lang and Billy Toon got over as Bognor turned things up after the break.

Again Parry was perfect with the conversions and added a penalty to complete a personal 18-point haul.

Chichester reckon their 41-24 first round win over London Two outfit Portsmouth on Saturday could be the club's best ever cup result.

But skipper Ben Polhill, who grabbed one of six Chi tries, insists there is more to come.

Polhill has set lofty targets of promotion and success in the Sussex Trophy this winter as he starts his second stint at the helm.

But a national cup run would go down pretty well too.

Polhill, one of the try scorers on Saturday, said: "We've got to the Sussex final twice and the semis once in the last five years so I see no reason why we can't win it.

"The players and committee had a chat before the season and we agreed we should really aim to go places.

"We've got lots of new faces, not just at first team level, so the strength of the club should improve and we have improved our coaching team accordingly."

Richard Isaac (2), Geoff Gibbs, Richard Johnson and Lee Evans also scored tries. Sam Cullen converted four and kicked two penalties. Haywards Heath had a bye into the next round.

Worthing have been handed a trip to one of the most famous clubs in England in the Powergen National Trophy. They will heading to Rosslyn Park in the third round on October 1 after Saturday's 31-19 defeat of Tabard.

Rosslyn Park were one of the top clubs in the country before the professional era, not least when rampaging England star Andy Ripley was at No. 8.

They have fallen on harder times since and were bottom of National Two last season. Worthing co-coach Jody Levett admitted he could have asked for an easier draw but said: "This should be a really good challenge.

"It's a nice place to play, a huge pitch and hopefully we respond the way we did when we went to London Scottish and Richmond last season."

The big pitch should suit Worthing judging by the expansive rugby they produced in fits and starts against Tabard.

But Levett admitted: "At the moment we don't seem to be able to control a game."

The contest was in the balance until Gavin Stephens raced away for a last-minute kick-and-chase try after a Tabard raid had come to nothing.

Worthing produced some great rugby at times and all five tries were scored out wide.

Apart from Stephens' late opportunist effort, the home scores all came from suberb interplay.

Dave Davis, Mike Imrie, Ben Coulson and Terry Butler got over.

Coulson drew a blank with the tough conversion attempts but landed two penalties as Worthing responded well to going 7-0 down inside three minutes.