National League Three North: Cleckheaton 42 Morley 24 

CLECKHEATON, who put ten tries past Stockport, ran in another seven in this derby defeat of Morley - three in the first half and fourt in the second.

Ross Hayden was the first on the board with the start of what would become a hat-trick, Ronan Evans converting from the right-hand touchline.

Evans then added a penalty before an interception led to a try for Morley's Richard Knowles but Cleckheaton hit straight back, with Neil Chivers crossing the whitewash from the back of a ruck and then Hayden finished off a flowing backs move by squeezing in again in the right-hand corner.

Neither try was converted but Cleckheaton held a 20-5 lead at the break.

Morley trailed by a similar score at half-time the previous week against Ilkley but then mounted a spirited comeback.

But Cleckheaton were too strong and extended their lead when captain Richard Piper picked up from the back of a five-metre scrum and proved unstoppable.

Tom Austin's try from the back of a line-out then put Cleckheaton into a 32-5 lead with Evans' conversion.

Morley were down but not out, however, and scored two tries in quick succession, but then Hayden countered with a kick into the in-goal area which he dived on for his hat-trick.

Austin ran in his second, and Cleckheaton's seventh, when Neil Chivers fed him a nicely-timed ball in acres of space.

Morley kept trying to the end and were rewarded with the consolation of a bonus point try on 80 minutes from Hayden Bayliss but it was Cleckheaton's day, and a masterful performance netted them five points and third place in the early league table.