Play-off chance for RUFC
Smith’s side beat Keighley to finish as runners-up in Yorkshire One KEIGHLEY 33 SCARBOROUGH 52
Scarborough RUFC secured a play-off for the North One East after a 52-33 win gave them second place in Yorkshire One.
Scarborough RUFC secured a berth in the play-off for a spot in North One East after their 52-33 win at Keighley earned them second place in Yorkshire One.
Simon Smith’s side picked up a bonus-point win on the road while rivals Heath lost out at home to Middlesbrough, securing the men from Sil- ver Royd the coveted second place in the table and a playoff clash on Saturday May 5.
Scarborough look set to play Durham City or Consett in the crunch promotion shoot-out.
Skipper Matty Jones admits the Silver Royd dressing room is buzzing at the contest.
“It’s great to be a part of it all,” said Kiwi Jones.
“We’re all buzzing at the moment. It’s usually a quiet time of the season and here we are with a huge promotion game with so much to play for.
“I don’t know anything about the teams vying for the top two places in Durham Northumberland Two, but from reading between the lines, it looks likely that we’ll be playing Durham City.”
Jones was delighted with the team’s performance in their superb 52-33 win at Keighley.
He added: “We spoke about a couple of things in the build-up, that we haven’t finished a season well for a while and that we traditionally haven’t done well at Keighley either.
“So we knew we’d need to put in a strong performance and do our bit, hoping Middlesbrough could do us a favour against Heath, which they did.
“There was a nervous wait on the Heath score as there was an injury in that game, but it was a weight off our shoulders when it came in.”
The visitors scored a try early on from their first attack of the match, Harry Domett ghosting through a couple of challenges to touch down between the posts and give them a 7-0 lead.
Aaron Wilson’s try was then converted to make it 14-0 and when Ben Martin scored a try from a scrum, again converted, the away side were 21-0 up and seemingly coasting to the win.
The home side replied with a converted try of their own, but Paul Taylor’s try secured the bonus point for Scarborough.
After the interval, Jordi Wakeham added a try to put the away side 33-7 ahead, but a couple of tries from the hosts pulled it back to 33-19.
More brilliant work by Domett saw him feed Martin for his second try of the game, scoring between the posts as Scarborough went 40-19 ahead.
The see-saw nature of the second half continued as a missed tackle allowed the
hosts in to make it 40-26, only for James Perrett to put Scarborough 47-26 clear after a huge error by the home side.
Wilson then scored his second try of the game to finish off a superb move by Scarborough, and although Keighley did score another to make it 52-33, Scarborough had done enough to seal victory and with Middlesbrough winning at Heath this meant that Smith’s men had secured second spot in Yorkshire One.
Scarborough will now tackle the runners-up in Durham Northumberland One in a play-off on Saturday May 5 for a spot in North One East.