Egremont Rangers are off the bottom of the National Conference Premier Division after notching their second win of the season.

A 30-10 home success against Leigh Miners Rangers enabled them to leapfrog Pilkington Recs, who lost 44-20 at Rochdale Mayfield, and move to within a point of Saturday’s visitors.

It was only 8-6 at half-time after full-back Lewis Beckwith had gone over twice, with winger Jake Ellis crossing for Rangers and Jonny Youds adding the conversion.

Within five minutes of the restart, the lead had moved out to 14-10 as Matty Henson went in for a try which James McDonald converted. The Rangers hit back with an unconverted try from winger Todd Fenlon.

It was only in the last quarter of the game that Egremont pulled away to win well.

Stand-off McDonald scored a try, which he converted, and for good measure he put over a penalty before hooker Henson and winger Callum Aitken crossed in the last two minutes.

There was a dramatic finish at Skirlaugfh deep into injury time when Ross Gainford took on a penalty from the halfway line and nailed the kick which gave Kells a 24-22 victory.

They had trailed 22-16 at the break, and even then needed a stoppage-time try from centre Craig Benson to pull themselves that close.

At the start of the game, Kells had raced into a 12-0 lead with just six minutes on the clock.

Full-back Ryan Doran and veteran prop Lee Rutherford both crossed and Gainford added the conversions.

But that prompted a fiery Skirlaugh response when they helped themselves to four tries, three of which were converted by stand-off Harvey Gotts.

Full-back Lee Stewart, centres Mike Johnson and Ben Peterson, along with substitute MacCauley Duke all crossed the Kells line.

But a fine defensive effort by Kells in the second half saw them concede no further points.

Benson scored his second try on 63 minutes, converted by Gainford to leave the sides all square – and set-up the nail-biting last kick of the match to win it.

Wath Brow might have had visions of a win at leaders Siddal approaching the half hour mark.

They were deservedly ahead 12-6 and playing well, but by half-time, the hosts had got ahead 16-12 and in a devastating second-half display, they ran out winners 52-12.

Winger Curtis Teare and prop James Dixon both crossed for the Brow with Cole Walker-Taylor converting both after Siddal had opened the scoring with a try by stand-off Shaun Garrod, converted by Gareth Blackburn.

In the last ten minutes of the first half, there were tries from centre Ben West and substitute Zack McComb, one of them converted by Blackburn, to edge the champions in front by the break.

Four minutes into the secondhalf, Siddal’s man-of-the-match Taniela Bakosa scored the fourth try and really it was a procession after that.

Siddal helped themselves to a total of 10 tries with Blackburn landing six from six kicks.

Chris Brooke, McComb, Bakosa and Elliott Hodgson crossed and there was even a penalty try when Freddie Walker was illegally stopped from reaching his own kick ahead.