Warrington 21 Crewe and Nantwich 0.

WARRINGTON returned to winning ways against Crewe and Nantwich to maintain slim hopes of promotion from rugby union's South Lancashire and Cheshire Two.

The Walton Lea Road men need to win all five of their remaining matches to stand a chance of promotion while hoping for a further slip up from either Sefton or Dukinfield, the two teams above them.

Warrington, who had lost their two previous league games, started strongly and kept up the pace throughout.

With better handling and better awareness of when to release the ball they could have gone on to score many more points.

Neil Sullivan and Kevin Jones crossed for tries in the first half, with Andy Almond kicking a penalty and adding another early in the second period.

Warrington had to wait until the last quarter of the game before they added to their points total when a catch and drive following a lineout saw veteran flanker John Callander claim a touch down.

Sandbach 2nd 21 Warrington 2nd 12 WARRINGTON'S second string found out that all good things must come to an end.

Sandbach broke Warrington's run of 11 undefeated games on Saturday and the first 10 minutes of the game were decisive with Sandbach scoring two tries.

Warrington were always chasing the game from that moment but Sandbach's defence was terrific.

Phil Griffiths scored his first try for 10 years with Rhian Mullen also crossing the whitewash.