Albion are through to the last 16 in the Yorkshire Cup after beating fellow premier league side Westgate Redoubt .

The Keighley side had to draft in several second team players due to holidays, injuries and work commitments and responded magnificently against a large physical Westgate team and Simon Marsden scored in the sixth minute with James Feather converting.

Six minutes later Smith burst through weak tackling to score, Feather converting to make the score 12-0.

Marsden intercepted and ran 95m for a great converted try converted by Feather and a minute later Smith grabbed his second try from 40m out, again leaving Westgate taking the score to 22-0.

Albion couldn't put a foot wrong and Tom Holland crashed over to score with Feather convertingto make it 28-0 before Westgate got on the scoreboard with an unconverted try.

A second try made it 28-10 but Albion were not finished and Rob Bailey scored near the right touchline. A great conversion by Feather made the half time score 34-10 in Albion's favour.

Westgate began the second half with an unconverted try and this gave them a visible lift. However, a penalty goal on 47 minutes from Feather gave Albion a 22-point cushionbut Westgate closed the gap to 36-24.

Albion were gifted a further 2 points when Boocock had the ball stolen under the posts.

Two further unconverted tries left Westgate just six points behind with eight minutes to go. Albion had to dig deep and prooduced a great defensive stint.

Feather eased the pressure with a penalty, but with less than five minutes remaining Westgate's influential second rower Andy Fisher broke clear, but was stopped in full flight by fullback Ricky Broughtonto make certain of a great win.

Man of the match was captain James Feather who led by example, he kicked eight goals and directed much of Albion's play and was tireless in defence.

n Albion have been drawn at home to Birkenshaw in the next round of the Yorkshire Cup on Octobe 25. This week they are away to Victoria Rangers and the second team are at home to Slaithwaite, kick off 2.30.

Dewsbury Celtic 28

Keighley Town 18

If Celtic thought that they were going to win this cup-tie comfortably they were wrong. Town matched the Yorkshire senior division side across the park and caused them all kinds of problems before seeing the chance of victory slip away.

Celtic were soon 2-0 up after converting a penalty for lying-on, and a converted try five minutes later put them 8-0 up.

Town slowly started to get into the game with some good forward running by Chris Ellison and Tom Palmer. A kick along the ground by Darren Lynam with a good chase by Quinton Sneyd who gathered to score under the posts, Jason Barnes adding the two points to put Town back in the game.

They battered their way through Dewsbury's defence again on the half hour. Rocky McNulty scoring under the posts from close range withthe conversion putting Town in front 8-12.

However Dewsbury regained the lead on the stroke of half time with a try under the posts to make it 16-12.

Dewsbury scored two tries to Town's one in the second half. Andy stokes going on a great run before off loading to Darren McNulty to score too far out to add the conversion as Celtic secured victory.

Emley Moor 26

Silsden PR 18

An injury-struck Silsden team went down battling against Emley Moor, and as in recent weeks.

The first half was dominated by the home side, and their influential scrum half inflicted serious inroads into the Silsden defence. Emley put 14 points on the board with two converted tries and a penalty, and Silsden were reduced to 12 men when loose forward Matt Horne was dismissed for a punch on the Emley scrum half.

The half time break gave Silsden coach Tony Fella time to re-group his troops, and with the slope to their advantage, the game was far from over. However, it was the home side who started the second half playing controlled possession and depriving Silsden of the ball.

They stretched their lead to 20-0 before Silsden got on the scoreboard after some impressive work from Martyn Fryers and Chris Langdale sent second row forward Ed Billings went on an unstoppable run to the corner.

Emley hit back with a converted try but Silsden then dug deep, and began to dominate the game with Jon Gwilliam and Mark Ives combining well. EChris Langdale broke through the Emley defence to spin and put the ball down on the whitewash, converting his own try.

Silsden were now just 16 points behind had 20 minutes to salvage something from the game.

Martyn Fryers scored a brilliant solo effort throwing two dummy passes to supporting runs from Stephen Dent to score.

Silsden then made the home side work hard in defence and after two great drives from Rangers forwards Mark Ives drew the Emley defence and a beautifully timed pass sent winger Chris Fell in at the corner.

Again Silsden could not convert the try and trailed by eight points. Despite several near misses, a resolute Emley defence held out against the 12 men visitors.

Silsden travel to Hollinwood tomorrow (kick off 2.30) at Melrose Fields Oldham.

Clayton A 72

Cowling Harlequin 12

It was all hands to the pumps as Cowling travelled to top of the league Clayton 'A' and suffered their biggest defeat.

Clayton tore in to Cowling without mercy and showed their superiority from the outset. An unremitting onslaught saw Clayton leading 32 -0 at the break.

The second half continued in the same vein but outstanding performances from Stan Greenwood, Tom Booker and a truly superb effort from heroic Richard Curtin put some pride back in to Cowling's performance.

A great individual effort saw Chris Armitage score for Cowling and shortly afterwards Richard Curtin willed his way through seven Clayton Players to score a great individual try.

Ben Bibby added the extras to give Cowling some consolation.

The day belonged to Clayton though who bagged fifteen tries. Richard Curtin was Cowling's match award.