PENNINE LEAGUE DIVISION 3

Undercliffe Wildboars 45

Whitehall Warriors 10

After last week’s excellent performance at league leaders Bank Top, the Wildboars lying bottom of the league should have been a stroll in the park for Whitehall. However the Warriors turned out, as coach Richard Darkes commented, "a comedy of errors" that saw Whitehall hit their worst defeat in 3 years.

The misery that Whitehall endured was mainly self inflicted with forced play and a non-existant sliding defence leaving them without the ball for 80% of the match.

Four of Undercliff’s 8 tries came from interceptions with Gavin Jarvis getting three of these from his own line.

At 16-0 down, Captain Baz Stead momentarily stemmed the flow with his trademark try from close range and with Ricky Middleton’s conversion all was not lost.

A brief fight back led by Richard Casanove, Paul Barraclough and Simon Howland ensued but it wasn’t going to be Whitehall’s day as 3 further Wildboar tries came before the interval to Paul Cross, Mick Montgomery and Andy Freezey.

The half time team talk saw a different Whitehall side come out for the 2nd half and Pete Williams and Andrew Johnson drove the ball hard at the Undercliffe line and sent in a very determined Andrew Sadler at the corner.

The Warriors continued with more intense pressure but inevitably things went against them once again. When they should have been celebrating a try themselves, the ball was dropped and another full lengther by Jarvis followed.

Undercliffe scored further tries to Andy Shepherd and Lee Nellist to complete the scoring and end a throroughly miserable day for Whitehall.

On Saturday the Warriors entertain Sharlston Rovers and will have to put in some hard work at training to get back on the right track.