North Wales Crusaders 48-0 Rochdale Hornets

Hornets took a beating at North Wales Crusaders as they lost for the second game in a row following a five match winning run that had seen them climb to second in the table.

Welsh international Rob Massam did the major damage to Hornets with his five tries.

Crusaders opened the scoring through a Dallimore break and added two more tries, from Toby Adamson and Rob Massam, to give them a 16-0 advantage at half time.

Hornets needed to sharpen up on ball security in the second half, but within four minutes of the restart Owain Brown palmed the ball off to Andy Moulsdale for North Wales’ fourth of the afternoon.

The floodgates opened and the Welsh side punished Hornets heavily with Bannister going over the line, followed by Massam adding four more to his first half try.

A club spokesman apologised for a "lifeless display" saying "ruthless North Wales put us to the sword."

CRUSADERS
1 Tommy Johnson
32 Dan Birkett
17 Stuart Reardon
3 Christiaan Roets
5 Rob Massam
6 Andy Moulsdale
33 Jamie Dallimore
8 Jonny Walker
14 Dave McConnell
21 Simon Stephens
12 Gary Middlehurst
15 Toby Adamson
29 Stephen Bannister
Subs:
9 Lee Hudson
13 Jono Smith
16 Ryan MacDonald
30 Owain Brown

HORNETS
1 Wayne English
2 Gareth Langley
16 Danny Davies
23 Dave Hull
5 Dave Sutton
6 Paul Crook
32 Danny Yates
8 John Cookson
31 Chris Hough
29 Carl Forster
11 Chris Baines
13 Jordan Case
26 Dave Llewellyn
Subs:
28 Jordan Hand
24 Mark Goodman
30 Dom Speakman
10 Matty Crow

Referee: Tom Crashley
Attendance: 1,086