Folly Lane u9 6

Rylands Sharks u9 12

THE Sharks stormed through to the North West Counties semi-finals with an awesome defensive display.

Woodward was man of the match with two superb tries and James was outstanding taking the top tackler. Dean was tireless in defence and fully deserved the special award.. Goals were kicked by Dean and Duffy.

Team: L. Bate, M. Cooper, C. Dean, L. Duffy, H. James, C. Litherland, G. McKeon, M. Morrow, P. Risley, S. Sinclair-Smith, L. Thursfield, D. Walker, N. Woodward.

Crosfields u9 22

West Houghton u9 10

A cracking game played in good spirit.

J. Gillon led Crosfields well and picked up the coach's man of the match award. J. Giblin had a good all round game and picked up the man of the match trophy.

A. Allen was most improved player and J. Marshall top tackler, well supported by Z. Taylor, J. Anwyl and J. Hart. Try scorers were D. Brown, A. Dixon, two and S. Mitchell. Goals were kicked by A. Allen, D. Brown, J. Hart.

Team: M. Noonan, Z. Taylor, J. Gillon, J. Giblin, J. Anwyl, D. Brown, J. Marshall, S. Mitchell, A. Thompson, A. Dixon, J. Hart, K. Yates, A. Allen, C. Eland and J. Dolphin.

Latchford Albion u10 12

Ince St. Williams u10 18

LATCHFORD started strongly but it was Ince who took the lead with three tries for a half-time 18-0 lead.

The second half saw Latchford dominate in attack and defence. Their first try came from a barnstorming run by Joe Gandy, which was converted by Danny O'Brien. Latchford continued to absorb the pressure and came up with another try through determined running from ever present Ben Mellor.

Player of the match was James Struthers with best tackler Gandy and the coach's award for his support play went to lively Joe Mellor.

Team: J. Mellor, J. Price, D. Worrall, S. Appleby, J. Struthers, L. Mitchell, B. Mellor, C. Payton, K. Houghton, J. Gandy, D. O'Brien, R. Buttress, T. Alderman.

Rylands Sharks u11 0

Orrell St. James u11 30

RYLANDS put in a spirited performance. Man of the match was Peter Keenan; top tackler, Craig Wilcock; special award winner, Robert Jones.

Team: R. Douglas, L. Caldwell, C. Forster, C. White, B. Spiers. P. Shawcross, A. Crosby, P. Keenan, R. Jones, J. Peasnall, G. Hewitt, M. Wright, C. Wilcock and J. Goulden.

Warrington Schools u11 24

Leigh Schools u11 12

AFTER a 36-12 defeat last week at Oldham Warrington came back with a bang by completing the double over Leigh in the league this season.

Billy Maunder led the team well from scrum half, Conor Beneke steadied things well from acting half back and forwards Paul Reynolds, Paul Airey, Jon Smith, Lee Mitchell and James Sherratt shone in the tackling and strong running departments.

Tries were scored by Mitchell, Airey, Smith and Sherratt. Goals were added by Smith, Anthony Kelly and Sherratt.

Woolston Rovers u15 10

Crosfields u15 18

ROVERS were second best in this fiercely contested and entertaining 'derby'.

Young Soap made the most of the wind to score two early tries through Richard Hough and Chris Gordon. Paul Oultram kicked a superb touchline goal and was awarded a second missed goal.

Rovers responded with a Johnson try converted by Corker to leave it at 12-6 at half-time.

An unconverted Jones try pulled Rovers closer but Crosfields scored the sealing try through Gordon, which Oultram converted again.

Rovers: Berry, Hayward, Fitzpatrick, Jones, Corker, Heaton, Speightm McKay, Gandy, McHugh, Clarke, Johnson, Davidson, Sears, Bell and Coleman.

For Crosfields, Chris Sawyer, James Mather, Robert Hayes and Andrew Coates had strong games.

Tameside u15 12

Grappenhall Griffin u15 22

GRIFFINS did just enough to take the points. Two tries each were scored by Stout and Povey with three conversions coming from Hutchinson.

Best for Griffins were man of the match Cunliffe, Buckley, Stout, Povey and Flynn.

Team: Flynn, Critchley, Flint, Garvey, Farrell, Farrell, Hutchinson, Lester, Cunliffe, Todin, Povey, Buckley, Stout, Vance, Horton, Stott.

Wigan Schools u15 16

Warrington Schools u15 12

WARRINGTON were completely unphased by their Lancashire Cup semi-final away draw to the favourites and very nearly snatched a deserved victory following a second half performance that had Wigan reeling.

Tries by Phil Stout and Stefan Flint with two goals by Barry Hutchinson in a second half in which each player outplayed his opposite number, just failed to earn the team a place in the final.

The whole squad can take credit for an outstanding performance.

Bewsey Bulls u18 28

Pilkingtons u18 6

THE Bulls were back to winning ways with Paul Cragg going over three times in the first half without any response from Pilkingtons.

Pilkingtons made a brief recovery shortly after the restart but the Bulls went in again through Heaton and Cragg.

Team: Croughton, Ross, Duckers, McKay, Heaton, Ryder, Hanna, Leonard, McCarthy, Barber, Cragg, Smith, Savage.

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