HARROGATE PIRATES 32 SKIPTON A 43

Skip started well with a Jon Kulik penalty. Harrogate replied with a try. Left winger John Hughes received a pass inside his own half, stepped inside and sped away for a converted try. Harrogate replied with another try. Ten minutes gone, 10-10. Jon Kulik took a quick tapped penalty and jinked in from twenty metres out for a converted try. Harrogate again replied with a try. Next up, a well worked move put right winger Mark Fleming into space, he finished with his scorching pace for another converted score for Skipton. Half-time 15-22 to Skipton.

This half, Harrogate started the better, scoring their fourth unconverted try. 20-22.

Then the heat started taking its’ toll on the more senior players in the Harrogate side, the younger, fitter lads were on the Skipton side. They controlled the next fifteen minutes to take the game away from ‘gate.

Second row, Richard Hill appeared in the fly half channel and strode over, taking a couple of defenders with him. Karl Potts, who had been having a hard time against his opposite number, eventually got away, but was hunted down by ‘Gate’s’ winger. Captain Steve Marks as ever, was up in support, securing the ball and transferring it to Frank Trueman to get over from a yard. Then a well-worked passage of play, finished with flanker Calum Cameron who stormed in from forty metres out, he even outpaced the home side’s right-winger, who up to that point had looked the quickest player on the pitch. All these tries were converted by scrum-half and man-of-the-match Jon Kulik. He finished with eighteen points, a try, five conversions and a penalty goal. He was hard pushed for the man-of-the-match by Calum Cameron who was perpetual motion personified at number seven. Harrogate finished well with two more tries.

Saturday 14 April

Team

15 Ben Davies 14 Mark Fleming 13 Karl Potts

12 James Wade 11 John Hughes 10 Wayne Berrey

9 Jon Kulik 8 Paddy Murray 7 Calum Cameron

6 Steve Marks 5 Ash Greaves 4 Richard Hill

3 Paul Shearer 2 Dave Mitton 1 Gordon Fisher

Subs

John Grayston, Peter Dutton. Lee Shaw, Frank Trueman

Tries

John Hughes, Jon Kulik, Mark Fleming, Richard Hill, Frank Trueman, Calum Cameron

Conversions

Jon Kulik 5

Penalty

Jon Kulik