BANK Quay Bulls amateur rugby league team will continue to fly the flag for Warrington in Leigh Miners' Carlsberg Super Cup.

They have reached their third successive Super Cup semi final after defeating Conference Premier Division giants Leigh East 26-22 in Saturday's opening tie.

Bulls, who lost to Miners in the final last year, play in the semi finals on Saturday at 1.30pm against Wigan St Judes, a Conference side who narrowly defeated Rylands Sharks in another of Saturday's highly competitive first-round ties that included a red card for player-coach Mark Forster.

It was Bulls' virtually faultless first-half display and superb defence late on that set up their giant-killing act against a side led by their former coach, Mick Fishwick.

Nick Braide led the way with a crunching tackle on ex-professional Lee Hansen, then giving Bank Quay a four-point lead on six minutes with an unconverted try.

The North West Counties Premier Division side added further tries before half time from hooker Alan Clare, Ste Bird and Ste Caley.

East hit Bulls hard at the start of the second half with two tries and a conversion in 15 minutes.

But Nick Braide's second try proved to be the match winner before two more East tries completed the scoring.

A makeshift Rylands team pushed Wigan St Judes to the wire before falling 26-18.

Judes held a 10-point advantage after 20 minutes before Hayden James saw a gap to power over.

After the break Judes extended their lead before Darren Hill grabbed his first try for Rylands.

The game got a little heated with an elbow on Danny Forster resulting in him leaving the field with blood pouring from his mouth.

His father Mark Forster then saw red after 65 minutes for a high shot.

Judes took advantage of their numerical supremacy, running in two converted tries.

With 10 minutes remaining Rylands found their second wind with Hill scoring his second try and Ian Ward also crossing.