Kendal crashed 50-19 at home to Lymm in Regional 1 North West.
But given the club’s injury and unavailability problems that didn’t represent a bad effort against a side lying third in the table.
The visitors, who moved second with this win, had only been beaten by leaders Blackburn and started impressively.
They went ahead on nine minutes from a well-constructed move at a line-out when the ball was moved straight back to hooker Rob Makin on the touchline and he squeezed over in the corner. Cormac Nolan converted.
Lymm continued to dominate possession and they scored again on 17 minutes, again from line-out ball but an open-side finish.
The ball was moved smartly along the line and Nolan finished off with an arcing run helped by some missed tackles.
Kendal then had a good spell with the ball and the forwards pushed Lymm back into their 22. But it ended disastrously after 25 minutes when the ball was shifted wide and Nolan intercepted to race 80 metres and score under the posts before converting.
It was his 65th try for Lymm which equalled a club record.
Three minutes later Kendal were on the scoreboard from a scrum near the Lymm line. Although they couldn’t get over immediately they recycled and Steve Nelson plunged over for the try which Dan Lowther converted.
The last 10 minutes of the half all belonged to Kendal and just before the whistle they scored to reduce the deficit to just five points.
After being repulsed on the right the ball was shifted left and Lowther was able to find a gap to get over and added the conversion.
Lymm started the second half positively but with the context of the match having changed they elected to take an early shot at goal with Nolan popping over a penalty.
The Kendal forwards then hammered the Lymm line but were unable to get through a solid defence and paid the price for missing their opportunities.
When a Kendal line-out mis-fired Lymm grabbed possession and Oli Higginson charged through deep into home territory before sending the supporting Ben Simpson over for his first League try. Nolan converted.
Five minutes later Lymm scored their fifth try when the ball was moved smartly across the field before winger Nathan Beesley raced down the touchline and then in behind the posts for the try which Nolan converted.
When Kendal responded with a concerted attack Lymm had Nolan yellow-carded for a high tackle on Nick Carlton.
During his absence Kendal scored a third try to raise hopes of a bonus point.
Nick Carlton made the initial break which was finished off by Mckenzie Cousins but went unconverted.
There was to be no bonus point try for Kendal and after surviving the rest of Nolan’s absence without conceding Lymm added two more tries before the end.
Paddy Jennings showed tremendous power to charge through the Kendal defence to go under the posts for Nolan to convert.
Finally when a Kendal drop-out was caught by Lymm skipper Beesley he cut back inside, wrong-footing the home defence to score. Nolan added the extras.
