Wigton Colts produced another excellent display to defeat Houghton 28-5 at Lowmoor Road and continue their fine form of the last five weeks.
In testing conditions, with the wind blowing across the pitch, Wigton opened the scoring with a piece of individual skill from Huw Llyod who beat several defenders on his way to the try line on a 60-metre run. Jayden French added the conversion.
The bigger Houghton forwards then went through several phases to score an unconverted try to close the gap.
Wigton created several opportunities, moving the ball wide and they looked to have the edge in the three quarters, but a good cover tackle or a loose pass would see the attack come to nothing.
On the stroke of half time Mikey Dodd crashed over and French converted again to leave them 14-5 ahead at half-time.
Many spectators wondered if this nine-point lead would be enough as Houghton would now have the elements.
Indeed to start the second half Houghton were camped in the Greens 22, but excellent defence knocked them back time and again.
Then from a scrum number eight Bruno Studholme attacked the blind side and broke up-field for 35 metres before he was tackled. However, he was able to provide an excellent offload for the supporting Matty Crozier who just held off two defenders to crash under the posts, leaving French to add the extras.
Wigton now started to get on top and proved the fitter of the two teams. From a turn-over good handling from the backs moved the ball wide to find Alfie Warwick in space to charge up-field.
As the cover defence came across he kicked intelligently for Huw Llyod to re-gather and score the final try, again converted by French.
This was a very hard-fought win against a bigger team, but the desire shown in defence, coupled with a confidence to attack space provided the young Greens with their fourth win on the bounce.
This Saturday sees them host Percy Park when they’ll be looking to secure 6th place in the League of 11 teams.
They had started the season slowly when they suffered a couple of long-term injuries to two of their bigger forwards. But now everyone is back fit they are going well.
