National Conference League Division Two Egremont Rangers 40, Eastmoor 6

Last updated at 14:40, Monday, 08 March 2010

Egremont Rangers 40 Eastmoor 6: Three tries by winger Blake Mahovic were the features of Egremont’s ultimately comfortable victory over Wakefield side Eastmoor.

Time and again Eastmoor pressed determinedly but, apart from an early try which gave them a brief lead, found the home defenders in no mood to yield.

Eastmoor took the lead after just a couple of minutes with a converted try but Egremont hit back almost immediately from the restart when, following a scrum, Mahovic routinely crossed in the corner and John Paul Brocklebank added a great conversion from the touchline.

They almost extended their lead but Jack Murray was unable to ground the ball in-goal after chasing down James McDonald’s kick, and the match was 20 minutes old when Mahovic struck with the try of the game to set his side on the road to victory.

There looked to be little threat to the Eastmoor line when Murray received a kick inside his own half.

Mahovic took possession from acting half-back, however, and off he went – at first across field, before circumnavigating the defence and finishing spectacularly down the left flank for a memorable touchdown. Brocklebank converted.

Davies extended it further when Brocklebank and McDonald carved open the Eastmoor defence in the middle of the field and found their full back colleague supporting.

With a delicate side step he cleverly wrong footed his opposite number to finish well, and Brocklebank added a simple conversion.

Davies was to have the final say of the half, too, when, he stepped up to land a penalty goal immediately before the half time whistle sounded.

Centre Dean Laverick added to Eastmoor’s woes when he opened Egremont’s second half account with try in the 53rd minute, on virtually his side’s first serious attack of the half.

With the game apparently meandering to an inevitable conclusion Egremont took the opportunity to give more playmaking responsibility to youngster McDonald – supported admirably by the undemonstrative but bang in form Paul Corkhill - and were rewarded with three late tries.

Mahovic grabbed his third after taking Laverick’s pass, and then it was the winger’s strong running which created the position from which Keiran Glenn burst dynamically through for another try.

Similarly, Glenn’s break almost had Brocklebank across in the dying seconds before he unselfishly supplied the scoring pass to David Butler.

Brocklebank landed the conversions.

First published at 11:30, Monday, 08 March 2010
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