Egremont come from behind to beat Heworth
Last updated 11:50, Monday, 17 November 2008
Egremont Rgrs 28 Heworth 16: Egremont Rangers came from behind yet again on Saturday to clinch a win over Heworth at Gillfoot Park.
The west Cumbrians repeated their feat of two weeks ago when they overturned a 20-point deficit to beat East Leeds, as they came back from 12-0 down to record a 28-16 win.
Egremont welcomed back prop forward Mally Caton for the first time following knee surgery, and as expected he tightened up the middle 20 metre channel of the pitch on both attack and defence for his team.
It was appropriate that it was a Caton break, produced the try which finally broke the game in the favour of the home side. That was as late as the 76th minute. It was that close.
Young winger Kyle Hiddleston, who added the conversion, had already scored a try of his own, and also added the extras to Ashley Elsley’s second try moments from the end of the game to seal the fate of a gallant Heworth team.
Egremont began badly and Heworth took the lead with a converted try in the sixth minute and extended it 19 minutes later with another.
It looked grim for the home side, but then Caton joined the attack off the bench and lifted his side, going on to crash over from short range to score in the 27th minute, Brocklebank adding the conversion.
An increasingly confident and dominant Elsley scored the try which, with Brocklebank’s conversion, drew the side’s level eight minutes prior to the interval.
The sides changed ends with the scores level, but with a spring in Egremont’s stride, they suddenly looked the better of the two teams and had the scent of victory.
Rangers didn’t make any breakthough on the scoreboard until the final quarter when Caton and Elsley fed Hiddleston, who touched down for a 16-12 lead.
But then Heworth hit back and drew level with a try ten minutes from full time, and it was only the width of the goal post which denied them the lead, the conversion attempt striking an upright.
In a frantic finish, Egremont proved to have the edge as Caton’s break, Bewsher’s support and quick thinking, and Brocklebank’s chase to reach the ball in-goal produced the winning try, and Hiddleston coolly tacked on the conversion.
When Elsley skipped and danced his way through a crowded throng of defenders in the closing seconds to score his second, it was no less than he and his team mates deserved.
