West Leeds 15, Bradford Salem 30 Bradford Salem maintained their promotion challenge but, despite outscoring their opponents by five tries to none, were given a fright thanks to the accurate boot of West Leeds fly half Dale Breakwell.

The deadlock was broken by Salem when swift handling from a tap penalty created on the overlap allowed winger Danny Thomas to go over in the corner.

Salem centre Jonny Robinson was unable to land the touchline conversion but his counterpart Breakwell kicked two long-range penalties to put the home side ahead.

Bradford regained the lead when skipper Simon Davies dived over following a line-out before Robinson and Breakwell traded penalties.

Romanian lock Alex Savin powered over for his seventh try of the season but another long-range effort from Breakwell reduced the arrears to 18-12 at the break.

Salem extended their lead when former West Leeds blindside flanker Damien Pearson scored the try of the game. Gathering the ball just inside his own half, Pearson burst through several would-be tacklers to race 50 metres for a magnificent solo effort.

Breakwell kicked another penalty and thought he had scored a further one when the touch-judges raised their flags, only for the referee to overrule them.

To compound the home side’s woes, Salem centre Matt Steel sprinted under the sticks for a try, improved by fly half Mark Barlow.