Carlisle completed their Counties 1 Cumbria season with a 77-0 home win over Aspatria Eagles.
It gave Carlisle a chance for a number of players who have been on the bench, on the fringes or just coming back from injury to show coach George Graham exactly what they could bring to the side.
Because although this was the final League fixture there is a County Cup final coming up – on a daye and at a venue still to be decided.
It didn’t take Carlisle long to get on the scoresheet with Rhys Callaghan finishing off a slick move to put Carlisle in front after a minute. Robbie James added the conversion.
Vince Lung darted over for the second after nine minutes, and centre Johnathan Park stretched the opposition defence to grab the third midway through the half.
Jake Whittaker secured the bonus point on the half hour mark, before James won a footrace after an error from the Aspatria defender, converting his own try to go 29-0 ahead at the break.
It wasn’t all one-way traffic as Aspatria caused the home defence problems for the latter part of the second half, yet were just unable to find a way through.
Carlisle pushed on in the second half, with Aspatria indiscipline adding to their woes. A high penalty count and a man in the bin gifted Carlisle the chance to exploit territory and possession to put another five tries on the board by the hour mark.
By the time Mark Greenwood added the 13th try just shy of the fulltime whistle, Aspatria had not much left, though they finished strongly, but were ultimately denied preventing a whitewash.
The 13 tries were shared by Burns (2), Whittaker (2), Park (2), Callaghan, Lung, Tingey, Blakely and Greenwood. James converted four and there was one each for Whittaker and Mulholland.
