There were big wins for Batley, Blackpool, Keighley, Leigh, Halifax, Dewsbury, Sheffield and Whitehaven on Sunday.
Over at the Stobart Stadium Halton, last years finalists, Barrow Raiders and Widnes Vikings fought out a compelling clash that was seized at the death by hosts Widnes.
Barrow Raiders made a great start with an early try from James Nixon while dual-reg forward Liam Farrell scored after 21 minutes. This sparked the Raiders into action as Liam Harrison and Nathan Mossop claimed tries for Jmie Rooney to stretch the visitors advantage to 18-6 at half-time. A fourth Rooney goal from a penalty took the score to 20-6 before Widnes struck with a try from young prop Dave Houghton but still faced an uphill battle with most of the last quarter to play and an eight point deficit.
A Widnes win looked unlikely when Ben Kavanagh was sent off after 73 minutes for an alleged headbutt while Rob Roberts was yellow carded for retaliation. This tipped the scales in the Vikings favour and Thomas Coyle darted over from a scrum for Shane Grady to land his third goal before a last gasp finish from Shaun Ainscough earned victory for the hosts.
Amid the other scores and scorers of the weekend, an interesting incident occured at the South Leeds Stadium when a 67th minute incident saw referee Craig Halloran send off Lucas Onyango following a spear tackle on Hawks Danny Grimshaw. This resulted in players from both sides informing Mr Halloran that he had got the wrong man. Onyango was recalled to the field and the whole incident was then bizarrely placed on report. It must be remembered that this is the same referee who disallowed a perfectly good Leigh try that denied the Centurions victory over Halifax a couple of years ago and the same official that was in charge of the Gateshead-Leigh game last season for which Paul Rowley was duly suspended from any coaching activity for four games following comments about the refereeing performance after the game.
Scoring honours go to the following players this week:
Ian Preece (Batley) for his hat-trick against Swinton.
Martin Keavney (Blackpool) for his hat-trick against Gateshead Thunder.
Tom Hemingway (Blackpool) for his 22 point haul (1 try, 9 goals) in the same game.
Jon Presley (Keighley) for his hat-trick in the Cougars win over Workington.
Rob Worrincy (Halifax) who grabbed FOUR tries against London Skolars.
Lee Paterson (Halifax) kicked 8 goals against London Skolars.
Scott Turner (Dewsbury) for three tries against Rochdale.
Mitch Stringer (Sheffield) for his hat-trick against York - even more noteworthy for a prop forward!
Derry Eilbeck (Whitehaven) for three tries in Haven's win over Doncaster.
Results:
BATLEY 46 Swinton 10
BLACKPOOL 74 Gateshead 6
HUNSLET 28 Oldham 14
KEIGHLEY 38 Workington 10
LEIGH 36 Featherstone 6
London Skolars 0 HALIFAX 68
Rochdale Hornets 12 DEWSBURY 48
SHEFFIELD 40 York 10
WHITEHAVEN 54 Doncaster 10
WIDNES 22 Barrow 20
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