Barrow Raiders 38 Keighley Cougars 22

COUGARS were knocked out of the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup after a disappointing second half, having only trailed 20-16 at half-time.

The Raiders grabbed the afternoon’s opening score when Liam Campbell broke from dummy half and offloaded to Chris Hankinson, who sent Lee Haney over in the corner.

However, Keighley took the lead when Jesse Sheriffe turned Kristian Tyson inside and out before passing to Paul Handforth.

Barrow grabbed two tries in three minutes in similar fashion to go six points in front, with Liam Harrison breaking to put Josh Ward over before Campbell’s break sent Max Wiper to the whitewash.

Cougars then levelled the scores, with Tyson’s poor positioning this time allowing Danny Jones to stroll past before his offload gave Josh Lynam the chance to score in front of the away fans.

Home tries from Matty Heaton and Nathan Mossop looked to have finished the game as a contest but Cougars closed the gap to four when David March rolled over the line after being ruled not to have been tackled.

Early in the second half, the game was halted when a collision led to Haney being taken from the field and air-lifted to hospital after damaging his neck.

Haney needed emergency medical help, with Barrow coach Paul Crarey later saying that he had sustained lacerations to the back of his head, swelling around his neck and severe back pain.

"Not what you want to see but a fantastically prompt response from the air ambulance," the Barrow club tweeted. "Less than half an hour."

Keighley were then their own worst enemies once again when Peter Lupton's clever dummy put Campbell over next to the posts.

He had a second minutes later when he left Olly Pursglove and Jesse Sheriffe for dead with some clever footwork, Mossop completing the victory from a Joe Bullock offload.

Cougars grabbed a try on the hooter when Jode Sheriffe broke through a tackle, but it was too little too late.