Edinburgh edged out Glasgow 23-19 at Hughenden last night in the Welsh/Scottish League clash, and in doing so claimed the Virgin Trains Cup.

Edinburgh opened the scoring in the first minute after Derrick Lee's follow-up of his own kick forced the penalty for Duncan Hodge to goal.

Edinburgh had the better of the early exchanges and after putting a drop goal wide Hodge made the break to put David Officer over for the try.

Hodge converted and the visitors continued to dominate with Cammy Murray pulled down short of the line by a Rory Kerr tackle.

An 80-yard hack and chase by Murray after Glasgow had threatened the Edinburgh line led to a scrum but surges by Todd Blackadder and Kevin Utterson were held up short as Glasgow defended desperately until a penalty lifted the pressure.

The home side finally put some play together with Kerr and Andy Henderson making ground before Hodge hoofed a 60-yard touch-finder from which the ball worked to Utterson to go over for Edinburgh's second try which was again converted by Hodge.

Edinburgh pressure prevented Glasgow from developing any pattern to their game, forcing errors when the home side reached the danger zone.

Tommy Hayes was wide with a penalty which would have opened the Glasgow account but his kick to the corner again set Glasgow up until the inevitable mistake occurred.

Two minutes before the break, Hayes finally got Glasgow on the board with a penalty but in injury-time Hodge restored the margin with a drop goal to take Edinburgh in at the break 20-3 ahead.

Hayes slotted a second penalty three minutes into the second half as Glasgow started to look much sharper but the errors again crept in allowing Edinburgh to mount an attack in which virtually the whole team handled until Joiner was halted feet short of the line.

Hayes break put Kerr off on a blazing run and, after the influential Blackadder had been sin-binned, Glasgow scrum-half Graeme Beveridge nipped in for an opportunist try.

Hayes converted but Edinburgh blasted back with Murray almost going over.

Edinburgh kept up the pressure, Gordon Simpson was sin-binned and Hodge exacted the penalty.

During the next 10 minutes neither side could break down solid defences then Hayes' 50-yard penalty brought Glasgow back into the game with nine minutes remaining.

The Glasgow stand-off narrowed the gap further with his fourth penalty and only a hint of a forward pass halted a sweeping Glasgow move which had try written all over it.

Rather than close the game down in the final minutes Edinburgh continued to spread the ball but were unable to breach a Glasgow defence in which Jon Steel and Donny Macfadyen put in crucial tackles.

However, even a final Glasgow flourish was not quite enough to save the match.