Orrell SJ u7...20

Rylands u7...24

DANIELLE Bound won player of the match. Alex Griffiths took top tackler and Michael Horne won the special award.

Try scorers were Griffiths, two, Jack Green, two, Callum Moore and Bound.

Orrell SJ u8...10

Rylands u8...40

HAT-TRICKS from man of the match Hardman and Cooper plus tries from Green, two, Cartledge and Whiteley.

Chorley u8...4

Latchford u8...34

ALL the players worked hard in defence and attack and played excellent rugby.

Team: James, D. Ball, Feather, M. Ball, Wilson, Thompson, Pendlebury, Reid, Byron, Walters.

Rylands u9...24

Haydock u9...12

RYLANDS moved into the semi-finals of the NWC Gala Cup with a hard-fought win.

Man of the match James Mendeika capped an excellent display by completing his hat-trick. Dan Phillips also scored.

Top tackler Jordan Burke was rock solid in defence. Stand-off Jamie Howard picked up the special award for his outstanding distribution.

Latchford u9...8

Chorley u9...20

A CLOSE game but Chorley finished better.

Great tries from player of the match P. Atherton and hard-working J. Hewitt. Top tackler was C. Evans and most improved was J. Antell. Excellent debuts from S. Martin and M. Singleton.

Latchford u10...18

Chorley...u10...18

JACK Cooper plunged over with seconds remaining to earn Latchford a draw.

In a superb team effort the performances of Jack Walters, Antony Britton, Jack Conlon, Liam Allen, Ross Pendlebury, Michael Birkett and double try scorer Joe Mellor were outstanding.

Wigan SP u10...16

Rylands u10...6

RYLANDS' twelve-match unbeaten run was ended by a strong and skilful St Pats side in this NWC cup quarter-final.

Man of the match Liam Walsh led the way and scored Rylands' try, pouncing on a well judged Matt Lomax kick.

Matt Hayes and Jack Cowell-McQuillan were outstanding.

W'haven Scls u11...6

Warrington Scls u11...16

WARRINGTON were able to open a 12-0 lead by half-time thanks to some good defence and two excellent tries by Daniel Brown and Alex Thompson.

Warrington turned the ball over cheaply in the second half and

Whitehaven capitalised with a converted try.

Warrington scored the try of the game after some excellent inter- changes through the heart of Whitehaven's defence resulting in Ashley Cornelia scoring near the posts.

Wigan SC u12...28

Crosfields u12...0

COACHES award winner Patrick O'Shea gave a faultless display at full back.

Man of the match Oliver Downies' second half entrance gave the team the spark they needed to tighten up the defence and top tackler Ste Humphries dished out some text book tackles.

Thatto Heath u12...24

Crosfields u12s...6

SOAP went 18-0 down but came good in the second half, with coaches award winner Tom Caswell scoring the try of the game. Top tackler was Ross Sayer.

Latchford u12...10

Rylands u12...8

Joe Gandy took an inside pass to leave the visitors' defence wrong footed and score.

Mike Cooper was threatening with the ball and Latchford kept the slender 6-0 half-time lead.

The second try resulted from a rare interchange of passing to send Cooper in for a well-deserved try.

Rylands came back with relentless pressure on the home side's tryline which resulted in their opening try.

They added a late try which took the game to within two points.

It was a welcome final whistle that gave Latchford a place in the semi-finals of the NWC cup.

W'haven Scls u13...24

Warrington Scls u13...16

WHITEHAVEN scored twice before Warrington replied with well worked tries from Conor Beneke and Danny Rourke, converted by Chris Forster.

Warrington went ahead with a further try from Beneke again converted by Forster.

On the back of a huge penalty count for offside against Warrington, Whitehaven pinned the visitors in their own half and scored two tries to seal the game.

Rylands u13...14

Woolston u13...20

RYLANDS scored first but Woolston replied quickly with an opportunist try by A. Warburton.

Rylands then went back in front to make it 10-6 at half-time.

Woolston soon went ahead with two tries from P. Reynolds.

A few minutes later the try of the match was scored by K. Adamson.

Although Rylands scored again Woolston had done enough to win.

Man of the match for Woolston was K. Adamson, top tackler was A. Warburton with best support going to T. McCarthy and D. Whittaker.

C. White was Rylands' best player, and L. Caldwell scored two tries.

Leigh East u14...24

Rylands u14...12

RYLANDS were unlucky not to win this exciting Cup tie. Every player gave his all.

Tries by James Howard and Jason Murray.

Chris Johnson was man of the match, Chris Sherratt was top tackler and Mike Reilly took the coach's award.

Crosfields u14...16

Higginshaw u14...10

CROSFIELDS progressed to the next round of the cup.

Crosfields' tries were scored by M. Barber, two and W. Jones, two.

Rylands u16...0

Ince St Will u16...20

ALTHOUGH Rylands were unable to put points on the board, the display against a far superior team was excellent.

Best for Rylands were Carl Lloyd, Paul Strachan, but overall a much improved performance and a welcome return to Adam Peasnell and Andrew Challinor.

Crosfields u16...56

Haydock u16...6

CROSFIELDS continued their challenge for silverware with a 10-try performance.

Hat-tricks were scored by Mike Brown, David Leather and hooker Greg Pickett. Mark Cooke converted eight of the tries.

Ashley Albiston adapted well to full back and Tom Patterson was in the thick of things as sub.

Crosfields u18...22

Thatto Heath u18...4

THATTO HEATH never recovered from a first half onslaught from Soap.

The first five minutes resulted in a try by Hough which came after a good move from Oultram, Rowan and Kilshaw.

Crosfields kept the pressure up and Hough followed up a bomb to score his second try and Kilshaw added another.

In the second half Matthews completed Crosfields' scoring with Mellor adding his third conversion.

Crosfields kept Thatto to four points with superb defence from Hayes, Arnold and Noone.