Warrington Unlucky To Lose At Sefton

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Warrington’s makeshift third team matched Sefton point-for-point until midway through the second half when the tremendous effort finally took its toll and Sefton cruised to eventual victory.

Sefton revealed their game plan right from the kick off by using their heavyweight pack at all occasions. This gave them an early score but Warrington soon replied when Haydn Fraser finished off a well-executed backs’ move and touched down in the corner. Sefton relied wth a second try through their forwards andjust before half time Warrington showed that they also had scoring forwards when prop Tom Green exploded through the defence from the Sefton 22 to score out wide and make the half time score 10-10.

Sefton scored first in the second period with an unconverted try but Warrington came back in similar vein when centre Luke Ferguson took a crash ball to force his way over. The two sides then traded tries again, with Warrington’s effort coming from a sensational solo run from Matt Grimshaw. However, this was to be Warrington’s last contribution to the score as Sefton then went on to score two further tries.

“Bearing in mind that this was a side pulled together at the last minute and featuring quite a few walking wounded, the fact that we competed right up to the last ten minutes was a performance of heroic proportions,” said captain Jayesh Kerai.