Oldham St Annes 12 Woolston Rovers 42.

ROVERS remain in the title hunt and set up a decider with Crosfields after comfortably seeing off Oldham St Annes on Saturday.

In the knowledge that only a win would do to stay in touch with their local rivals, John Fieldhouse’s side got off to the perfect start when the half-back pairing of Sam Dobson and Theo Holt combined to set up Cameron Davies to crash over.

Chris Twigg and Oldham stand-off Matt Whitehead then swapped penalties before home centre Greg Worrall crossed to reduce the deficit.

However, Rovers responded well when Ryan Brown crossed in the left corner for a try converted brilliantly by Twigg.

The visitors were in again when Twigg was once more at the heart of things, bursting 40 metres down the right before feeding Australian centre Justin Becker to score.

By the time Becker had gone in under the posts after being put through by Holt, Woolston had score three tries in a devastating five-minute period for a 26-6 half-time lead.

Sean Conway got the second half off to the perfect start for the visitors by twisting and diving over before Rhys Waring barged over for the hosts’ final score of the afternoon.

Rovers put some gloss on the scoreline when Conway and substitute Craig Middlemore combined to find Twigg, who crossed in the corner before Conway was again involved in a flowing, six-person move which led to Wil Maudsley scoring the game’s final try.

Rovers: Dani Garcia O’Brien; Chris Twigg, Justin Becker, Lewis Hoarty, Wil Maudsley; Theo Holt, Sam Dobson; Chris Mellor, Ryan Brown, Andy Addison, Cameron Davies, Sean Conway, Dan Fearnley. Subs: Olly Parr, Craig Middlemore, Bobby McGregor, Jake Bennicke.