All Golds beaten by well-drilled Drighlington side in Challenge Cup

DRIGHLINGTON eased into the second round of the Rugby League Challenge Cup with a 32-4 win over the All Golds.

The visitors worked valiantly but their National Conference League opponents had too much experience in how to control a game.

While the All Golds made far too many mistakes against a welldisciplined outfit – they can learn from them ahead of the Southern Premier League season that kicks off in a couple of months.

It was from the first of those mistakes that Drig opened the scoring after two minutes’ play.

Sam Hodge was bundled into touch after scrambling to field a kick through and Michael Sanderson put Daniel Cahill over in the corner.

Cahill almost scored a second a few minutes later but a desperate tackle forced the ball loose as he was shoved into touch.

It wasn’t until 13 minutes from the break that Drig scored again. An error from a kick return gave Drig field position. From the scrum, Nathan Lawin skirted round the defence to score. Sanderson added the goal for a 10-0 lead which lasted until the interval.

The home side extended their lead four minutes after half-time when Andrew Brearley ran a good line to slice through the All Golds defence to score.

It wasn’t until the 53rd minute that the fourth score arrived. A neatly worked move put Ryan Gobin through a hole to score.

The only joy for the All Golds came shortly afterwards when a superb short ball sent Mitch Dent charging through. When he was stopped, 10 metres from the line, the ball was quickly spun to the wing and Tom Gaffney did well to collect Joe Uren’s pass to score.

Drig crossed twice more before the final whistle, the first a superb team try where the ball travelled sharply down the line for Steve Mcintyre to cut inside and finish.

Then, with nine minutes remaining, Jake Dearden broke through to race in from 40 metres out, Sanderson adding his fourth goal of the day.