Hornets in control to beat Orrell

Orrell St James U13 18

HFH U13 30 HALTON were far from their best but did enough and always looked in control to take the two points.

Lewis Hughes had a hand in all five tries.

Firstly he give a well-disguised short ball to Nathan Bannerman who ran a good line to open the scoring.

Ben Lane had gone close a couple of times and made it third time lucky as he stepped his opposite number to score. He quickly followed this up with a good try off a well-timed inside pass from Lewis to score under the posts and give Hornets an 18-6 interval lead.

Hornets scored first in the second half as Lewis repeated the same no-look inside ball to man-of-the-match Ben, who timed his run to perfection to leave the full-back with no chance to scorch in from halfway to complete his treble. Lewis capped off a good individual performance with a great solo try to step and dummy his way through to score under the posts. Lewis then tacked on his fifth conversion to make the final score 30-18.

There was plenty of good attack by Hornets and a few near misses where the lads looked like they should have scored, but the team was not quite on it with regard to their usual strong defence.

All credit to Orrell, though, for a very good game of rugby.

Leigh MR 16 HFH Open Age 52 CAPTAIN Danny Mellor led the way with a first half-trick as Hornets consolidated their position at the top of the table.

Hornets started quickly and never gave their hosts much hope with Ant Hollins and Adam Lawton also crossing the whitewash for tries in the opening period. Alex Smith added three conversions to put Hornets 26-10 ahead at the break.

Any hope the home team had for a revival were soon quashed as tries after the interval by Tom Swift, Andy Wainwright, Gavin Conroy and Danny Nelson put Hornets firmly in control. Hollins rounded things off with his second try whilst Smith added a further three conversions.