Skipton have come a long way in the last five seasons, but Saturday was not a good day for them.

Their first three sides all played Keighley, and the third team lost 60-0 at Keighley, the second team went down 65-5 at Sandylands and the first team made it a combined score of 12 for and 182 against, also at Rose Cottage.

Keighley's first team therefore remain at the head of Yorkshire Division Two, and their coach Tim Brunskill reckoned his young side had learnt an important lesson in the face of aggressive opponents.

"We didn't expect a Saturday tea-party - it was a derby after all - but we scored some good tries and showed our quality and class," he said.

"Skipton are not going to lay down and roll over. They are going to get into our faces and try to upset us. I fully expected that, and they may have had one or two of their best players missing, but that doesn't concern me. I have never used that as an excuse for defeats in the past and I won't in the future.

"You are as good a team as you put out, and we have a very talented squad of 25. Our pace out wide was telling in the end as was our fitness."

The main worry for Keighley after an amazing all-action match of 64 points and six yellow cards - my pen only rested for the last ten minutes - was the dismissal of prop Andy Webb for retaliation after he was high-tackled.

Already without Paul Sinfield (working away) and John Duffy (injured), Keighley could now be without Webb for a month, and Brunskill said: "The sending-off was hard, but we will cope with the lads we have as cover - we will be OK."

Skipton's director of rugby Andy Guest - a former Keighley player - said: "We were struggling to get a side out and had to use two players that hadn't played a first-team game for 18 months in Gerry Corrigan (full back) and Bob Birks (prop).

"We were down to our fifth and sixth choice props, and our fly half Darren Howson has gone to Australia, but Keighley were simply better than us. They are a good side and deserve to win the division, but we have come a long way in a fairly short time, and it wasn't so long ago that Keighley and West Park Bramhope were several divisions above us."

Referee Ron Needham (Yorkshire Society) sin-binned Keighley skipper Rob Riley and former Bees player Neil King (Skipton) after a front-row flare-up at the first scrum, and they were followed for a ten-minute rest by Skipton's captain Adam Oldfield, visiting hooker Robbie King and Neil King again. Keighley also lost replacement back Warren Knowles to the bin, but prop Neil King was only allowed back on to the field of play because his second yellow card was for a technical offence.

Home tries came from full back Carl Smith (2), right winger Matthew Cox (2), centre Kevin Young, No 8 Peter Schofield, left winger Nigel Curr, flanker Mark Lister and lock Paul Salmon. Fly half Johnny Harrison landed six impressive conversions, and Skipton's reply came from a try by talented New Zealander Frank Walker, and a conversion by Corrigan. Final score, Keihley 57, Skipton 7.