Thatto Heath stretched their unbeaten run to six games with a 32 – 16 victory over the Hunslet Warriors at Crusader Park.
The home side went 14 – 6 up at the break despite the Warriors holding the lead for 20 minutes with a converted try from James Baker.
Both teams lost a man each in the second half for ten minutes for fighting, the Crusaders made best use of the sin bins by scoring two crucial tries in five minutes.
The Warriors will have felt unlucky to have a try disallowed in the second half for crossing. However, Lee West got over with 14 to go, only for his try to be cancelled out by Andrew Stott to seal the points for the hosts.
It took only four minutes for the home side to get the scoreboard ticking over, Chris Frodsham dummied his way through and dived over to touch down.
The travelling side hit the front for the only time in the game when Daryl Gaunt’s forty twenty laid the platform for Baker to scoot from dummy half to score. Gary McClelland added the extras.
Two tries just before halftime for Thatto Heath got them back on top. Adam Walsh broke the line and sprinted away to restore their lead, and Sean Leicester also found a gap in the Warriors’ line to cross.
Caldon Bravo gave his side the perfect start to the second forty when he crashed over after a barnstorming run to the line. McClelland’s conversion got Hunslet within two points of Thatto.
With Matty Fox and Luke Bradshaw in the sin bin, Dave Pike slid over, and Louis Taylor squeezed in at the corner to open up a 14 point gap for the Crusaders in the space of three minutes.
Skipper, Bravo, thought he got his second of the game, only to be denied by the referee’s whistle for crossing.
With 14 minutes left and the Warriors 14 points behind on the scoreboard, they made good use of some decent field position when Lloyd Templeton’s offload was gobbled up by his winger Lee West to get over in the corner.
The home side had been creating gaps in the Hunslet defensive line throughout the afternoon, and, they found another four minutes from time. Andrew Stott dummied to cut the Warriors open, and he stepped away from the attempted tacklers to put the ball down and increase his side’s impressive winning streak to six games.
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