Leigh East V Dewsbury Celtic Review

04 Jul 2016 in News

Leigh East V Dewsbury Celtic Review Leigh East V Dewsbury Celtic Review

DEWSBURY CELTIC 6

LEIGH EAST 74

 

By Dave Parkinson

Another week, another emphatic performance from Leigh East as they replicated their high speed home form on the road.

 

Looking at the final score, it's hard to believe that it was 0-0 after ten minutes with both sides setting into each other before a spectacular opening try went the way of Tom Fletcher. Named at prop; Fletcher went 70 metres with a brilliant individual try. Tom Worthington goaled and East were on their way.

 

Ihaka Watene was at the heart of much of Easts good work, eventually claiming a sparkling hat-trick. He ran away from the defence over eighty metres in the 16th minute and the tries kept coming.

 

Andrew Ball is in sparkling form at the moment and the classy rake picked up an other two tries for his tally. Fine ruck recognition paved the way for his first as he seized a quick play-the-ball and dashed away. Leigh East were 18-0 up.

 

Two minutes later, a brilliant pass from Worthington brought another score for the prolific Josh Adudwumaa. At 22-0 there was brief respite for Dewsbury Celtic. The hosts had a couple of sets in good position before East found their rhythm a second time.

 

Fletcher grabbed his second try after 26 minutes and there was more pain when Pat Grainey blitzed through the middle and ran forty metres. Warburton's fifth goal made it 34-0.

 

Two more scores followed before the break when Worthington put Watene over from close range. Tai Tupou had a particularly strong first half and crafted a try on the left for Curtis Littlewood with Worthington goaling for a 46-0 half-time lead.

 

East continued their fast scoring in the first ten minutes of the second half. Ball broke from halfway to bring up fifty points before a set-play at a penalty brought a try in the corner for Chris Dootson, his first score for the first team.

 

Two minutes later a strong drive from Jonathan Abbott saw the substitute make good ground and his loose offload was swept up by Watene who sped away from the clutches of the defence for his third try.

 

At 64-0 the game was over and Celtic rallied. East did grab their twelfth try after 63 minutes when a superb ball from Watene saw Dootson sail over for his second of the game. The hosts grabbed a converted consolation of their own from out on the right but East finished with a flourish when substitute Jay Yarwood showed never-say-die attitude to go under three defenders to the line with Worthington completing an eleven goal haul to round off the scoring.

 

East: Christopher Penn, Chris Dootson, Josh Swift, Curtis Littlewood, Joshua Adudwumaa; Ihaja Watene, Tom Worthington; Adam Wilkes, Andrew Ball, Tom Fletcher, Tai Tupou, Sam Grainey, Pat Grainey. Subs: Jay Yarwood, Jonathan Abbott, Craig Wingfield, Stephen Tooze.

 

Tries: Ihaka Watene 3, Andrew Ball 2, Tom Fletcher 2, Chris Dootson 2, Pat Grainey, Curtis Littlewood, Josh Adudwumaa, Jay Yarwood.

 

Goals: Tom Worthington 11/13.

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