Wirral 21 Lymm 30

PRAISE was heaped on Richard McEvoy after two stunning tries helped Lymm return to victorious ways against Wirral.

McEvoy's first gave depleted Lymm a lead that was not lost until midway through the second half and then he popped up again to score the winner in a National Division Three North match in which the visitors had three players sin-binned.

Coach Adam Fletcher said: "After four losses on the bounce we needed a good win.

"We had young players playing out of position but they put in a hell of a shift. I feel we got what we deserved and were the better team.

"As far as Richard McEvoy is concerned, not many players can do what he did, in the way he scored his two tries."

McEvoy, playing at outside centre, made a sumptuous outside break and then switched inside to outstrip the cover and complete his 40-metre effort next to the sticks for Cormac Nolan to convert and make it 10-7 after 21 minutes.

Leading 25-21 from the 62nd minute, Lymm needed all their resolve to keep Wirral at bay.

And then from a defensive scrum in their own 22, Lymm moved the ball wide to McEvoy who broke through the line to sprint 60 metres for the bonus-point try in a storming finish to an exciting game in which Lymm number eight Ollie Higginson was prominent.

Lymm, leading 13-10 at the break and with skipper Adam Bray in the sin bin, scored the important first try of the second half through second row Joe Watson.

But after a yellow card for second row Will Baldwin Wirral lifted and went in front 19-18.

Watson was the third Lymm player to sit out 10 minutes but two players out of position on the wings featured as a lead was restored.

Eighteen-year-old debutant Callum Morris, usually a scrum half, stole the ball at the start of a sequence that led to right wing Rhys Jones, normally a fly half, creating space for centre Lucas Titherington to go over for a lead that was not surrendered.

Lymm: Dan Horton, Adam Bray, Mike Auden, Joe Watson, Will Baldwin, Jake Ashall, Ali Sutherland, Ollie Higginson, Andy Davies, Will Titherington, Callum Morris, Lucas Titherington, Richard McEvoy, Rhys Jones, Cormac Nolan. Replacements: Jordan Widdrington, Matty Connelly, Tom Shard.