Bath 36-14 Sale: Bath swept Sale aside 36-14 to earn their third European Challenge Cup final place in five years and they will be favourites against Worcester.
Bath will be looking for their first trophy in 10 years but the quality of their five-try performance against Sale also shows that the men from the West Country are also heading for the Guinness Premiership play-offs next month in prime form.
Sale, also with league ambitions but beset by injuries, were eventually outclassed and did not manage to score at all in the second half.
Worcester booked their place in the final as two tries from Sam Tuitupou helped down Newcastle 31-16 on Friday night and sound the curtain call on Jonny Wilkinson's season.
The fly-half will now undergo a shoulder surgery which will see him ruled out of England's summer Tests and the rest of the Falcons' floundering Guinness Premiership campaign.
Once again, Wilkinson and the rest of Newcastle's star-studded backline failed to shine in a game interrupted by a floodlight failure as a hungry Worcester side out-muscled and outthought a lacklustre Falcons pack.
The Warriors' first-half dominance was rewarded with tries for Marcel Garvey and Tuitupou before scores after the break from the New Zealand centre and replacement Tom Wood gave the home side a final berth against the winners of Saturday's clash between Sale and Bath.
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