It took only 5 minutes for Wetherby to take the lead. From a line out on the Hessle 22 the Wetherby pack drove towards the Hessle line, Hessle were penalised for collapsing the maul two meters out when it looked like Sean Lally was destined to score. From the resulting penalty Bradley Mason was stopped inches short before Elliot Griffiths popped the ball down on the front of the post protector for Wetherby's first of the afternoon. Alex Dus added the extras.

Hessle then pinned Wetherby back from the restart and a series of penalties later saw Hessle add the three points.

Wetherby started to play good free flowing rugby in the Hessle half and from a scrum ten meters from the Hessle line, great combination play from veteran Nick Oates and George Gilbert allowed Tom Edwards to crash over the line. Alex Dus added the extras.

Wetherby added a third 25 minutes in when, from a penalty the ball was shipped out blind where Wetherby had men over for Andrew Trotman to score in the corner.

From the resultant kick off Wetherby were sloppy in regaining the ball and allowed Hessle to counter and a series of missed tackles allowed the hard running number 8 to score under the posts.

Wetherby were inspired by this turn of events and kicked into third gear. And started to dominate the Hessle pack. Connor Sheridan added a 12 minute hat-trick before the end of the half, the first a great solo run, the second a double dummy to find the gap, and the third the try of the half with great play from youngster Will Jefferson whose delightful inside pass to Sheridan allowed the fly half to complete his hat-trick on the stroke of half time.

The Reds failed to kick on during the second half and the game got very scrappy with multiple handling errors from both sides. Wetherby knocked on 17 times during the game in the Hessle half.

Due to the amount of knock ons it gave Wetherby a good chance to work on their set piece and they continued from last week dominating the Hessle scrum, with the front three of Bradley Mason, Elliot Griffiths and Sean Lally turning over nine against the head and driving them off the ball on several occasions.

Hessle added a try on the 70 minute mark which was converted, before a set piece from Wetherby allowed Jack Wray to force his way over from a meter out.

The reds run out winners 45-17 but will be vastly disappointed in their second half performance.

This week sees promotion chasing Stocksbridge travel to Grange Park for the last league fixture before the festive break. Kick off is at 2:15pm this Saturday.