Crossland helps Otley overcome 16-point deficit

■By DESMOND HICKIE

Chester....................24
Otley.........................40
OTLEY thoroughly deserved their bonus-point win with a dominant second-half performance in which their pack and the boot of Eddie Crossland enabled them to dominate possession territory and score 32 unanswered points.
It didn’t start that way. Early on Chester showed continuity and fluency to allow fullback Sam Earl-Jones to step a defender and score the first try.
Otley scored a Ryan Gibson try from a driven line-out after 16 minutes, but the second quarter belonged to Chester.
Slick ...

Continue reading...

Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per day!

Already a subscriber to our website? Login