The third and fourth place clash in North Two West between Keswick and Winnington Park at Davidson Park lived up to expectations.
A close-fought game between two evenly matched sides finished 41-31 to Keswick who now have a seven point lead over their rivals.
Winnington Park, though, do have two games in hand so it could be a photo finish.
Keswick had early dominance, culminating in Billy Thompson giving them the lead from a penalty after seven minutes.
The lead lasted seven minutes when Park levelled with a penalty of their own.
With both defences in good form attacking play was met with stiff resistance and it took another penalty by Thompson on 20 minutes for Keswick to regain the lead.
However, at the restart Keswick offended and Park drew level immediately with their second penalty.
Park changed tactics, kicking deep into the Keswick 22 but the ball was collected by Chris Potter. He dummied to kick before dodging two tackles and reaching the half way line where he off-loaded to Jack Thompson.
He made an excellent run through the centre to score under the posts on 23 minutes and brother Billy landed the conversion.
From the re-start the ball was run back by Keswick and George Holme cut inside and ran through to score under the posts for Billy Thompson to convert.
Having been under pressure in the early scrums, Park began to assert themselves, winning against the head, and apart from the two tries the sides were very evenly matched.
A couple of penalties and good use of their larger forwards got Park into the home 22 but despite being pushed back, a penalty right on half time on the ten metre line meant they trailed 20-9 at the break.
Nine minutes into the second-half a good line-out take by Carrick Wharmby was passed through the backs to Ryan Weir who outpaced the defence from 35 metres to score to the right of the posts. Billy Thompson converted.
Try number four and the bonus point came just three minutes later. This time Chris Potter was the scorer, after out-running the Park defence and again Billy Thomson converted.
Park hit back and sustained pressure on the left through their forwards led to an unconverted try on 57 minutes
Park continued to impress, putting together a number of phases to score their second unconverted try on 64 minutes.
The penalty count against Keswick started to mount and a couple of attacking chances were snuffed out as a result.
More pressure by Park led to a penalty in the Keswick 22 and they eventually scored again through their forwards to make it 34-24 with eight minutes left.
Frustration cost Keswick in the shape of more penalties but they were able to win a line-out, run the ball and give Weir work to do on a charge to the line, which he was able to do. Billy Thompson converted.
There had been a couple of stoppages in the second half, but it still came as a surprise as the game entered the 88th minutes and the final whistle had not yet been blown.
That gave Park the opportunity for a last attack on their right and they were successful in scoring, again through their forwards, with the conversion for good measure.
