Rugby League: Wigan St Pats 30 - 6 Mayfield

Joe Schofield, Mayfield

Even though Mayfield’s NCL side had no game coaches Craig White and Neil Ramsden resisted the temptation to load their side with first team players.

Their regular squad has been magnificent this season and had already handed out a comprehensive beating to the Pats outfit.

Pats had other ideas though stacking the team with NCL premier division players.

Mayfield started strongly with Joe Muir and Mark Biggins putting in crunching tackles, this rocked Pats but they soon regrouped and their experience began to tell against a Mayfield side with five U18s in their ranks.

Despite being outclassed the Mayfield side gave a good account of themselves and never took a backward step even coming out on top in stages of the game.

Pats out enthused the young visitors and with pacy halfbacks soon controlled the game running in 14 unanswered points in the first half.

The game had to be moved to a fresh pitch at half time following a neck injury to a Pats player and the smaller pitch seemed to give Mayfield fresh hope of containing the Pats side but they ran in three more tries to make the score 30 - 0.

Mayfield never gave up and had the final say as Luke Hartley went over in the corner after a neat off load from Nick Hargreaves.