Rayment treble in vain as Tykes ride their luck

By BEN CROPPER

Leeds Tykes …36 Bishop’s S ……..31

LEEDS Tykes held on for a win against a spirited Bishop’s Stortford.

The visitors started the stronger with number 8 Reggie Hammick opening the scoring.

Leeds fought back as Ben Turpin broke before feeding Matt Salisbury to get his ninth try of the season, before Eddie Crossland added a superb conversion.

Four minutes later, the visitors hit back as Seva Kava spotted a gap in the Tykes’ defence to storm over. Ben Morrow extended their lead to 7-12.

Hooker Alex Rayment went over for the first of a hat-trick of tries on the day after 38 minutes to extend the visitors’ lead.

In the last play of the half, Kristan Dobson broke the defen-sive line and arced a wonderful run to touch down out wide; Cross-land added another fine conversion to narrow the gap to 14–17.

In Leeds’ first attack of the second half, Ewan Laughton scored under the posts. Within seven minutes of this score, Leeds added a further two tries from Albert Bradshaw and Salisbury respectively.

Rayment added his second after 53 minutes to seal his sides’ try bonus point. Bradshaw crossed for his second to give Leeds some comfort at 36–24. However not to be outdone, Rayment sealed his treble with a converted try giving Stortford two points in defeat.