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Wigan St Judes 16 Leigh Miners Rangers 24

Oct 23 • Senior Club News, Uncategorised • 1638 Views • No Comments on Wigan St Judes 16 Leigh Miners Rangers 24

Miners Rangers made it three wins in a row with a hard-fought but deserved success at a blustery Wigan St Judes. The Leigh side never had it all their own way against a spirited St Judes but always had that bit of extra class it what was at times an error-strewn affair. With Shaun Marsh putting in some tremendous defensive work, Gary Gittens clearly a man inspired on the return to the scene of last season’s incident, and Ryan Smith with two fine tries plus a tremendous forward effort Miners had the stand-out players but they had to do things the hard way, conceding the lead early in both halves before responding to take the win.
Judes, on a miserable sequence of results, had the start they must have dreamed off as Tommy Parkinson kicked behind the line and Tom Owen was the fastest to react, grounding the ball. Miners hit back with two tries midway through the half, the first as good pressure saw lively Joe Harrison put Kieran Dainty in for the leveller, then a smart Gittens’ offload on half-way put Smith away, the scrum-half using Adam Thomason as the foil before darting in himself for a fine try. It could have been more for the visitors, Dainty twice ruled offside as he chased Smith kicks through, and Miners were made to pay for those chances as Judes regained the lead two minutes into the second half, a cut out pass by Daryl King putting his namesake Steve through a big gap for a try converted by Steve Picton and a two point lead for the hosts.
Miners though dominated the remainder of the game, and were back in front in farcical circumstances. A strong run by the impressive Leon Brennan ended with Miners knocking on near the Judes’ line, but the home side then returned the favour as a wild pass across their own line was picked off by the alert Danny Jones and he put Craig Connor over. Just after the hour and a two-score cushion for the visitors as Gittens again sent out a sublime pass and fellow front row Dean Balmer profitted for a richly deserved try. Smith added his second late on with a dummy and dart to the line before Judes had a final response, initially denied when Dainty produced the tackle of the season to force a knock on when the score seemed inevitable, but at the death Sean O’Grady, by far the home side’s best player and standing up to some fearful punishment from Miners’ defence, crashed over for the score

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