Rugby Union round up

Sep 16 2009 by Our Correspondent, Birkenhead News

WIRRAL cruised home against Widnes 31-9 in South Lancashire/Cheshire One.

Chris Cox, Adam Stephens and Martin Bennett breached the visiting defence and Sam Broadbent struck two conversions and four penalties.

Anselmians were too strong for Dukinfield in a 58-10 outcome but Hoylake lost 11-20 at Wigan where Ben Flint crossed and Steve Young landed two penalties.

Oldershaw finished 15-0 to the good against Sefton in Division Two. There were tries via Mark Wilson and Rich Lappin plus a conversion and penalty from Mark Hallam.

There were home defeats for Port Sunlight 12-24 against Knutsford, Prenton 7-12 at the hands of Ellesmere Port and Parkonians 32-35 against Capenhurst in Division Three.

CALDY suffered their first defeat of the season at the hands of West Yorkshire team Huddersfield.

Caldy won the toss and kicked off, placing Huddersfield under pressure right from the off and within the first seven minutes had capitalised on two penalties taking the lead 6-0.

Huddersfield answered on ten minutes with the first try of the game coming from the Scrum Half Damian Clayton. The try, which was right in the corner, was impressively converted by the Fly Half Christopher Johnson to claim the lead at 6-7.

Three penalties later and the half time score was 9-13.

Caldy came out of the changing rooms ready for a battle. Mark Turner scored their only try after a fantastic offload from J.J. Dickinson, at 46 minutes, but Vasey was unable to convert making it 14-13.

At one try apiece, referee, Claire Daniels and the penalty count certainly had an impact on the result.

LSH were good value for their 24-12 victory against New Brighton in North One West League.

Little went right for New Brighton in a penalty riddled affair and they finished a man down with prop John Williams red carded in the final quarter after a flare up. The Blues managed tries via Paea Liku and Sean Ellis plus a conversion by Stephen Dean but LSH Never looked like losing.

But LSH started well with ten points in the opening minutes and thereafter never really looked like losing.