John Schuster helped himself to 20 points as Quins came out on top in an evenly-matched contest.

The exiles had opened an early lead through two Ian McAusland penalties only for Schuster to cancel out the advantage.

Scottish were unlucky not to put an early try on the board through the impressive Ronnie Eriksson, but a scrappy first half ended 12-9 in Quins' favour.

Director of rugby John Gallagher was able to breathe life into his side's performance with his half-time team talk and Quins capitalised on the unerring accuracy of Schuster's kicking.

A concerted effort from the whole back-line kept the ball alive for an advance which led to a five-yard scrum and number eight Chris Sheasby picked up for scrum-half Huw Harries to score.

Scottish hit back when a huge hoist from Jan Bonney gave Kenny Milligan room to attack Dan Luger and Jamie Williams. He rounded the two Quins with ease to touch down under the posts.

The final three tries were carbon copies of each other, pushover efforts which had been threatened all afternoon but only came when defences tired late on.