Eaton try snatches last-gasp success for Blues

MACCLESFIELD recorded a massive victory in a thrilling affair that the home crowd were well due.

Macclesfield opened the scoring when scrum-half Nick Allsop darted through a gap to touch down.

Loughborough then pushed Matt Berry over before scoring again when centre Elliot Brierley’s pop pass was intercepted and winger Kehinde Olowofela ran under the posts.

The mercurial Lewis Barker created a Macclesfield try for Mike Finnemore to level the scores. On the stroke of half-time the ball popped out the side of a home scrum, and Jack Moates latched onto the resulting offload to bring the score to 14-19 at half-time.

Sam Moss opened the scoring in the second period after a great break by Barker. The men in purple responded with a maul over try but Macclesfield began to turn the screw, with Barker himself the scorer this time after a positive carry by captain Ryan Parkinson.

The home side thought they had sealed the win with another score, Parkinson himself being pushed over from the maul.

But Loughborough hadn’t read the script, they fought back from 35-24 down on 63 minutes to be leading with five minutes to play, Gareth Kerr and Olowofela going over.

Macclesfield put a penalty into the corner and with almost every man in the maul, Tom Eaton scored the winner.