Blackpool 25 - Rossendale 35 Training Pays Off

Although Blackpool opened the match with an early try Rossendale soon responded when a good passage of play and strong support from Elliott Newell allowed Oliver Leah to score. Continued pressure from Rossendale gave rise to the second try and a strong run from Sam Ashworth to cross the line. Blackpool countered with an equalising try when Rossendale’s tackling let them down and their opponents ran in to score from the half way line.

It was not long before Rossendale went ahead again when a fine individual effort from Oliver Leah lead to his second try, only for Blackpool to score a try right on the half time whistle to level at 15 all.

On the restart the Rossendale captain, Josh Beeken,was unlucky to have a try disallowed, similarly only moments later his team mate Nuri Stoner crossed the try line but could not get the ball to ground.

Josh Beeken, playing at scrum half was starting to bring his back line into play and his speedy distribution from the scrum gave Dan Dunham the opportunity to score 2 try's both from the set piece to take Rossendale into a 25 - 15 lead.

Blackpool narrowed the gap to 25 - 20 but during some loose play quick reactions from Nuri Stoner allowed him to widen his teams gap again to 10 points. Blackpool were quick to respond again and refused to let Rossendale pull away, with the score at 30 - 25 to Rossendale the match was in the balance and Blackpool pressed hard for the equaliser. Fittingly, the final score of the match came again from the set piece. Josh Beeken making the break and feeding to Nuri Stoner who scored his second try.
This was the U10’s best attacking performance of the season, putting all of their hard work training indoors into a game situation.
Well done.

Final score 35 - 25. Man of the match - Josh Beeken.