Leeds Medics & Dentists 0 Keighley 28

PACKMEN Josh Hannah and Leigh Sugden both scored two tries and the visitors also shut out their hosts as Keighley made it a happy new year.

The Medics soon made their tactics clear, moving the ball wide at virtually every opportunity, but Keighley's centres Adam Horsfall and Danny McGee tackled their hearts out to help deny them.

The visitors, with schoolboy scrum half Sam Chilvers orchestrating his forwards, managed to build pressure and, from a driving line-out, No 8 Hannah drove over the line, full back Olly Mitchell adding the conversion.

The early score raised the visitors' spirits and, with Chilvers and fly half Rob Wilkinson calling the shots, it was always going to be a difficult afternoon for the students.

Well-constructed forward play, with Shaun Minikin and Hannah in fine form, led to a ruck near the try line, and the powerful Sugden picked up and was driven over by his pack, Mitchell again adding a difficult conversion.

The Medics threw caution to the wind even more in the second half as they tried to avoid Keighley's dominant loose play.

The strategy worked, with Keighley being denied possession for extended periods and being trapped in their own half.

Managing to gain some decent possession, however, the visitors forced play into opposition territory, and good line-out possession allowed the forwards to drive at the retreating Medics pack, a pick up and drive from Sugden leading to his second try, the in-form Mitchell converting.

Although there were some fine individual efforts for Medics, they could not break through a rock-solid defensive wall, and keighley again benefited from a position in the home 22.

Hannah rounded off a good individual and team performance with a driving try from a line-out, Wilkinson converting from wide out.