Keighley Albion 0

Normanton Knights 44

Albion's nightmare continued as they gave away a penalty for offside in the second minute of the game. Knights converted to take an early lead.

Andy Bowness was stopped by a last ditch tackle but Albion were made to pay for the missed chance s a converted try put them further ahead.

Martin Fryers and Kris Kirk were testing out the Knights defence with some good foraging runs, but poor passing let them down.

The Knights were trying to play open rugby, but Albion's defence led by Gareth Greenbank Steve Wrench managed to keep them at bay.

Albion at this time although behind were actually the better side, but were let down in the end by a couple of blunders by the referee who ruled out two possible try-scoring chances.

Knights punished Albion further with a breakaway try through scrum half Craig Mould. Ian Morse added the goal to make the half time score 14-0.

Playing down the slope in the second half the Knights were soon on the attack. Mark Webster charged over and Ian Morse added the goal.

Albion suffered another blow as Rob Bailey was sinbinned for an indescression as the try was scored.

Worse was to come as Simon Hill went on a diagonal run to score in the corner. Despite some heroic tackling from Steve Wrench and Gareth Greenbank the Knights were on a roll and Craig Mould scored his second try from 35 metres. Ian Morse to give Knights a 30-0 lead.

The Keighley side for their part were still trying to make a game of it with Martin Fryers and Kris Kirk involved in most of Albion's attacking plays. But more tries came and it was Hill again who provided a short ball that saw Lee Maskill score an unconverted try. They scored again when a chip through saw the ball come back off the post and into Kevin Price's hands and he dived over.

After survivcing a series of Albion attacks Knights rubbed salt into the wounds when Richard Stead scored the final try.

Albion now have a week off before travelling to York Acorn on March 23, before returning to Cougar Park for the last league game.

Keighley Albion 'A' 13

Dodworth 28

Albion appear to have lost touch with a promotion spot in the league with this home defeat to a more workmanlike Barnsley side.

The opening exchanges looked best for Albion. A stunning tackle, in more ways than one, by Garry Boocock lead to a lost ball for Dodworth. However it also lead to Boocock having to leave the field to recover from the crunching blow. Keith Dixon calmly dropped a goal to open the scoring but Dodworth soon hit back.

A marginal forward pass started off a move which saw the winger break several tackles to score under the posts. The conversion followed and put Dodworth in the lead.

A precisely weighted grubber kick by Dixon gave Alistair Feather an easy try behind the posts. Dixon put over the conversion to put Albion back into the lead.

With the poor conditions and resolute defence the attacks from both sides then started to struggle. A try close to the half time whistle put dodworth back in the lead.

Dixon calmly converted a penalty and Wayne Smith added a try to swing the lead back to Albion.

The turning point came after 67 minutes. Substitute forward Neil Palmer was sin-binned and in his absence Dodworth were invigorated and ran in three converted tries against a tiring defence.

The flurry of points gave a false impression to the scoreline and if Albion could have held out for the last ten minutes then they, rather than Dodworth, would be looking at finishing second in the league.

Albion's last chance of glory beckons when they play Queensbury in the quarter-final of the Shipley Trophy.

Morley Borough 40

Silsden Park Rangers 10

Silsden Park Rangers put up a remarkable display away to Morley Borough in division three losing 40-10, after starting the game with eleven players and finishing with nine.

They even had the audacitiy to score first after a good raid early in the match.

John Williams kicked a grubber to the right corner and youngster Chris Fell showed good speed to pounce first and score out wide.

Silsden competed well throughout and it was just sheer weight of numbers that gave Morley the edge on a few occasions.

Prop Rick Greenwood and second rower Chris Suttcliffe had huge games for the cobbydalers as did evergreen Dave Webster.

Man of the match John Williams grabbed an opportunist try just before half time when he followed his own kick and the Morley winger fumbled, and the halfback was over under the posts. He converted his own try and Rangers remarkably were only 18-10 down at half-time.

Silsden never gave up on the game and two late injurys took the game to rourke's drift proportions and it was just a question of how many.

Chances were rare for Rangers but Mark Kent did create a gap for Phil Hancock to race through only for him to be brought down by the fullback at the last gasp.

With Rick Greenwood and Mick Prentice off the field and Graham Seward walking wounded Silsden did a magnificent job to keep the score to 40-10.

Tomorrow Silsden Park Rangers play their last home game of a traumatic season against Ovenden A kick off 2-30pm.