Blackbrook 10 Bold Miners 16 BROOK suffered their first home defeat at the hands of local rivals Bold who thoroughly deserved the victory.

The home side gave away too many penalties and lost far too much possession and they must rectify these faults if they are looking to gain promotion this season.

Brook could not have got off to a better start when Dave Ryan scored in the opening seconds of the game. The loose forward stole the ball in a one on one tackle to go over in the corner. Bold's second row man Mark Saunders levelled the scores with two penalties in the opening 10 minutes as Brook failed to capitalise on their start.

Former Brook players Wes Singleton and Paul Rigby were making inroads into Brook's defence and a third Saunders penalty gave Bold the lead for the first time after 25 minutes.

Following a break from centre Graeme Cox it was Bold who conceded a penalty to enable Andy Shaw to level the scored again on the half hour.

The visitors however went in front again with seven minutes of the half remaining when good play produced a try in the corner for wingman Chris Burgess. Ten minutes into the second half the scores were levelled for the third time when following another Cox break, Brook's wingman Paul Fass had the overlap to score in the corner.

Unfortunately Shaw's attempted conversion hit a post. Good tackling from both sides prevented any scoring for the next 15 minutes and as the game went on the next score became vital.

With only just over 10 minutes remaining, Brook were camped out on their try line following a series of handling errors and it was Bold loose forward Wes Singleton who found a gap to score what turned out to be the match winning try, Saunders again added the conversion.

Jason Mitchell was selected as the Andrew Douglas Car Sales man of the match closely followed by Dave Ryan and Graeme Cox. Brook travel to Rylands this week however the second team have another local derby with a home game against Haydock B. The match at Boardmans Lane kicks off at 2.30pm.

Leigh East U18s 17 Blackbrook 6 Brook produced a spirited, but lacking their main playmaker they were unable to convert pressure into points. Trailing 11-0 at the break, they hit back with an Andy Dobson try following good work from Kevin Picton and then had chances to take the lead before a late Easts try finished them off.

Barry McGilvray continued his excellent start to the season taking the Junction Fencing man of the match award, while Phil Fairclough, Mark Leonard and David Bamber tackled everything that moved.

Blackbrook Royals U13s 22 Waterhead 6 A much improved Royals side saw some great team work to put Kurt Haggerty, Will Abbott, Bobbie Littler, Ryan Robinson over the white wash, and great kick and chase try from Ashley Butler. Newcomer Danny Smith got the man of the match award for his defence and for his continued driving force, top tackler Ryan Robinson, a much improved Ben Robinson gave all at the full back position. Mentions must go to George Stokes, Danny Crilly and Sean Price.

Blackbrook Royals U9s 20 Westhoughton 30 Luck was definitely not on the side of the young Royals this weekend but no one could fault their effort against much bigger opponents with good tries coming from N Keough, T Huntingdon, A Swift and A Morris.

The man of the match award was collected by none stop tackler Adam Dixon and most improved was Daniel Morris. Others worth a mention were top tackler Mark Kelly, Daniel Molyneux and Lewis Henshall who all tried hard.