Paul Brown-Bampoe stole the show at Sandy Park on Sunday as the raw young winger scored four tries in a 43-7 win for Exeter Chiefs against Cornish Pirates in the Premiership Rugby Cup.

The victory booked Chiefs a spot in the quarter-finals of the competition with one round to spare, but they will have to perform considerably better when the knockout rounds come as the hosts struggled to get going despite scoring seven tries.

Brown-Bampoe, who now has 14 tries in 13 first-team games for Chiefs this season, was joined on the scoresheet by Richard Capstick, Tommy Wyatt and Ethan Roots. Will Haydon-Wood added eight points from four conversions. Cornish Pirates crossed the line once through centre Tom Georgiou, with Iwan Jenkins adding the extras.

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Exeter Chiefs were given a false sense of how easy the contest was going to be when flying winger Brown-Bampoe caught a juggled cross-field kick from Haydon-Wood and ran in from 50m out after just a few minutes on the clock. For the next half an hour the hosts were pinned in their own 22 through a combination of giving away soft penalties in the middle third, a strong wind blowing against them, and the excellent kicking of the visitors, led by fly-half Jenkins.

With the pressure building, Chiefs were reduced to 14 men with Franco Molina sin-binned for illegally dragging down a maul, and the visitors immediately took advantage on the scoreboard with Georgiou breaking through a missed tackle by Wyatt to score under the posts.

When Chiefs finally got out of their half they managed to muscle their way over through Capstick who reached out a long arm to dot the ball down to make it 17-7 at the break.

With the wind at their backs, Exeter were sharper in the second half and crossed the line in just the second minute, with Wyatt breaking through the midfield and showing good pace to finish from 25m out.

But while the tries kept coming for Chiefs with Pirates down to 14-men with replacement loosehead Billy Young in the sin-bin for repeated team penalty offences at the scrym, there was a worrying lack of shape and structure from the home side’s attack, with the tactic seemingly being to give the ball to Brown-Bampoe as quickly as possible.

He obliged of course, taking a wide miss-pass to speed in for his second before Roots crashed over from close range after Joe Hawkins got within inches of the try line with a powerful burst down the right wing.

Brown-Bampoe had his hat-trick try in the 69th minute, taking the ball at a standing start he displayed his speed off the mark to beat the two cover defenders coming across to touch down in the corner with relative comfort.

Nice hands from replacement Dan John provided Brown-Bampoe with his forth to further grow his reputation as one of the hottest prospects in the English game.

Exeter Chiefs: 15 Tommy Wyatt, 14 Ben Hammersley, 13 Joe Hawkins, 12 Tamati Tua, 11 Paul Brown-Bampoe, 10 Will Haydon-Wood, 9 Tom Cairns, 1 Kwenzo Blose, 2 Jack Yeandle (c), 3 Jimmy Roots, 4 Rusi Tuima, 5 Franco Molina, 6 Ethan Roots, 7 Richard Capstick, 8 Jacques Vermeulen

Replacements: 16 Dan Frost, 17 Billy Keast, 18 Marcus Street, 19 Lewis Pearson, 20 Martin Moloney, 21 Stu Townsend, 22 Dan John, 23 Charlie McCaig

Cornish Pirates : 15 Bruce Houston, 14 Arthur Relton, 13 Tom Georgiou, 12 Harry Yates, 11 Will Trewin, 10 Iwan Jenkins, 9 Dan Hiscocks, 1 Oisin Michel, 2 Harry Hocking, 3 James French, 4 Alfie Bell, 5 Josh King (c), 6 Matt Cannon, 7 Lucas Dorrell, 8 Tomi Agbongbon.

Replacements: 16 Sol Moody, 17 Billy Young, 18 Tom Connolly, 19 Fintan Coleman, 20 Chris Mills, 21 Cam Jones, 22 Joe Elderkin, 23 Iwan Price-Thomas.

Referee: Alex Thomas