Wetherby’s victory at Adwick put them 8 points iclear at the top of their league and extended their league record to 12 successive wins.

It was a hard earned win with Adwick putting up much more resistance than they did for the earlier fixture when they conceded 65 points.

Wetherby took time to settle perhaps due to the 6 team changes from last week and a number of injuries during the warm up, with Sean Lally moving from Prop to Outside Centre. It showed with numerous handling errors and mistakes. However after 13 minutes they came good when an attack came from a tap penalty and Dan Simpson scored wide out. He crossed again shortly afterwards when a long pass from Nick Oates enabled him to outflank the home defence. James Gibson converted. On half an hour a flowing move came from a set up by Sean Lally and Ben Dalby swept into the line at an angle and scored to which Gibson added the points.

The Reds were troubled by the Adwick mauling but their backs always had the edge. They had two further tries disallowed in a scrappy end to the half. The visitors tidy scrummage allowed the backs to attack from inside their own 22. The passing was well timed for Micky Youlden, playing at full back, to come into the line and score. Now the home side rallied and their centre scored a good try when the Wetherby defensive line allowed him the space to run under the posts. This jarred Wetherby into life and when Alex Fraser kicked cleverly to the corner it set up a series of attempts by Stu Wrigglesworth and James Gibson to force their way over and Marcus Little was also held up over the line. The stalemate was broken when Alex Fraser, who had a fine match, sold a lovely dummy to open up the way for Ben Dalby to score again.

Marcus Little’s luck had run out completely when he thought he had scored but touched the ball down over the dead ball line. Stu Wrigglesworth was enjoying himself however after he came on as substitute for the injured Frank Pitchford. He made a couple of strong runs out of defence and after 70 minutes he took on a tap penalty to drive over near the posts so Gibson could convert with ease. Adwick replied instantly when a speculative kick behind the visitors defence caught Wetherby out and Adwick scored a converted try. The Reds final flourish started with a tap penalty almost on their own line. They were stopped 10 yards short however but Adwick were penalised and James Gibson forced his way over the tryline and converted it himself.

Not such an easy victory this week but the class of Wetherby’s teamwork carried them through and with only 3 games to go they go to

Hornsea next Saturday needing a further 8 points to secure promotion