Pocklington 16

Yarnbury 39

YARNBURY'S fly-half Steve Galbraith added to his impressive points tally this season with another 19 point haul in a 39-16 league win at Pocklington.

Having been on the receiving end of close scorelines against Pocklington in recent years, the Horsforth outfit eventually enjoyed their day in the sun with five tries, all scored through their backline.

Andy Marshall opened the scoring after five minutes following a lovely grubber kick from Galbraith. Marshall's partner in seniority, full-back Billy Thompson, added Yarnbury's second, before Pocklington hit back with a try of their own.

Marshall then grabbed his second and the best try of the day after Yarnbury's second-rower Lian Rigby had stolen yet another Pocklington line-out.

Two conversions and two penalties from Galbraith, added to a three-pointer by the home side, saw Yarnbury turn round with a 25-8 lead.

The home side then gave themselves a sniff of a chance with a penalty shortly after half-time to reduce the deficit to 14 points but this was as close as they would get as Galbraith nipped in for a 75 yard interception try which he converted to take the Horsforth boys out of sight at 32-11.

Having wrestled with his opposite number for the best part of an hour, prop Ian Shannon was replaced by Johnny Huttson, who took full advantage of his now weakened and thoroughly demoralised opponent.

Enjoying themselves in the scrum and line-out, Yarnbury's front five Phil Sutton, Phil Wray, Huttson, Rigby and Steve Miller began to dominate and with back-rowers Ian Moule, Martin Rivett, Gareth Jones and replacement Aidy Moule winning everything in the loose, Yarnbury went in search of more points.

Young winger Simon Threlfall touched down for his second five-pointer of the season with some five minutes remaining. Galbraith added the extras to finish with a personal haul of one try, four conversions and two penalties.

Had skipper Steve Lee not attempted a drop goal himself, when his more dextrous fly-half was in better position to attempt the kick, Yarnbury's fly-half might well have had his own personal grand slam.

Aidy Moule mistakenly touched down on the Pocklington five-yard line, much to the amusement of the vocal travelling support.

Another away league win keeps Yarnbury within two points of leaders Scarborough who will visit Brownberrie Park a week on Saturday.

Hornets 49

Pocklington A 14

YARNBURY overcame the last week's disappointment with a convincing second-half display.

The first-half was a tight affair, with neither side able to make any sort of breakthrough. Indeed, it was Pocklington who turned around in the lead 14-7, with Yarnbury's solo try coming from promising full-back Alex Wilcox - the extras added by Kris Lilley.

The second-half was all Yarnbury with six tries scored without reply. Gareth Clancey continued his good form to score as did Paul Oldridge, Emyr Rees, Mike Malone, with Wilcox completing his hat-trick with two powerful tries. Lilley added the extras to round off a good afternoon for the Yarnbury boys.

Yarnbury U-17s 18

Keighley 15

YARNBURY finally achieved their first win of the season but left it very late.The game started brightly when Corcoran raced over to score an excellent try, cancelling out an earlier Keighley penalty, but things soon started to go against Yarnbury.

A number of unsuccessful clearance kicks into a strong wind and a very controversial decision left Keighley with a scrum in the Yarnbury 22. They spread play and the scrum-half made it 8-3.

The second-half started in much the same way and Keighley soon converted another overlap into points and their full-back converted. This served as a wake-up call to Yarnbury and the back-row of Buckle, Lydon and Malone took control.

Then added pressure being exerted by the Yarnbury pack meant that Keighley conceded penalties and from one scrum-half Jimmy Lee took a quick tap and sent Tom Daniels over for a well-worked try. The same player converted.

With the score at 12-15 to Keighley, Yarnbury were awarded a penalty which Daniels kicked. Yarnbury attacked through the centre with Maycock and Davies, who was particularly outstanding, and were awarded a penalty which Daniels kicked to win the game for the blues.

An excellent result for Yarnbury, which will kick-start their season and hopefully show that perseverance will always bring good results even if you are not playing well.