Heath and Brods flying high in North One East following dominant wins

HEATH RAN in six tries as they romped past Consett 36-3 in a one-sided North One East encounter.

Tom Owen went over with two minutes played and although Consett replied with a penalty five minutes later, the hosts went on to dominate the rest of the game.

Alex McFadden’s try, improved by Dan Cole, extended the lead and Will McLoughlin bagged the third try, again goaled by Cole to make it 19-3 at the break.

Matt Hallett broke to send Joe Morrison over for the bonus point try before Elliott Spiers popped over on 50 minutes.

Morrison grabbed his second try, converted by Cole, to round-off the scoring for Heath who are sitting pretty in third spot ahead of their visit to Morpeth on October 16.

■ Fourth-placed Old Brodleians continued their good form with a 30-16 win at Cleckheaton.

Brods took the game to their hosts in the early exchanges and despite losing Ben Barron to injury early on, they opened the scoring with a penalty from Phil Town on six minutes.

Cameron Wroot was sent to the sin bin on 15 minutes but the visitors’ momentum continued to build and Jimmy Hodkinson finished well from short range to make it 8-0.

Brods dominated the lineout with some accurate throwing from Elliot Craven and excellent hands from Ben Hoyle and Bob Sykes in difficult conditions and from such a lineout, Michael Briggs was in support to crash over the line, Town converting.

Cleckheaton responded with a well taken try in the left hand corner and added two second-half penalties from Dale Breakwell to put them within four points.

Town kicked a penalty of his own to make it 18-11 and it got better for the visitors when they created an overlap and Alex Murphy was able to finish in the corner to extend the lead to 14 points.

Another good lineout put the Hipperholme pack on the front foot again and after a patient build-up, Brods broke the defence with a long pass from Town putting Dom Georgiou over to secure the bonus point try.

Cleckheaton kept going and Tom Hainsworth touched down in the corner to claim the final score of the match.

Brods host Scarborough on October 16.