Broughton Park 10 Lymm 17.

LYMM consolidated second place in rugby union's Powergen North Two West with a hard-earned victory at Broughton Park.

Broughton opened the scoring after capitalising on an early Lymm attack that had broken down, allowing their winger to fly back to the Lymm line for a try and conversion.

Lymm responded with a quick advance into the Park 22-metre area.

A 15m driving maul to the Park line then allowed Rob Calderbank to score a deserved try.

Lymm sustained their domination and ever-alert scrum half Chris Kinsey sprinted 20 metres up the blind side of a maul to score, giving Lymm a 10-7 half-time lead.

Broughton Park struck back when Lymm were off the boil to level the scores, setting up an exciting finale.

Lymm's backs and forwards combined well to create several scoring opportunities and the cohesion was finally rewarded when replacement Tristan Laga's well-taken try was converted by Shaw with five minutes remaining.

Lymm hope to continue their run of success on Saturday with a home tie against Bowdon, which will also be the annual former players reunion at 12.30pm, with kick off set for 2.30pm.

Tarleton u14 0 Lymm u14 65.

LYMM dominated Tarleton from the first whistle and ran in 11 unanswered tries scored by Hugh Davies, Mike Randle, three, Harry Rule, three, Will Jones, two, Nick Wright and Nick Finch, crossing for his first for the club.

Tarleton u13 22 Lymm u13 14.

LYMM had the better of Sunday's game for substantial periods of play but were undone by weak defending at penalty situations.

A powerful drive from Rob Connor gave Lymm the lead and a quick dart over from Aarron Rasheed saw them extend that at the start of the second half.

Six second-half substitutions by the visitors showed the depth of the squad but Tarleton made the most of late penalties to take the game.