Last is best in try feast!

Apr 22 2002 By Chris Roberts, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

But it took another 15 minutes for the lead to be increased when Rob Roberts crashed over from a quick tap penalty from Paul March.

McNamara added the conversion and followed suit just before the break after Reilly had wriggled and squirmed out of several tackles to score.

At 16-2 Huddersfield were now in control and within a minute of the restart they were over again as Roberts' long blindside pass gave Graeme Hallas a walkover.

Mike Wainwright raised Dewsbury's morale with a well-worked converted try after 50 minutes, but by the time he added his second the Giants were 46-8 to the good.

With Gene having come off the bench at the break to inject more life into his side, the tries began to arrive at regular intervals.

Reilly completed his hat trick, Chris Langley powered over for two and Thorman also got in on the act.

And with McNamara and Thorman sharing the goalkicking duties, a massive gap in the scoreline had appeared.

Yet now it's time for Huddersfield to take a break and prepare for the Cup quarter-final, where a repeat of the second-half performance would surely leave any side trailing in their wake.

MATCH FACTS

Huddersfield Giants Reilly; O'Hare, Langley, Hallas, Iwenofu; Thorman, Moxon; Walker (Roberts 26mins, Walker 68mins), March (Hayes 70mins), Cruckshank (Plume 35mins), Rice, Hayes (Gene 40mins, Cruckshank 68mins), McNamara (Whittaker 58mins, bb).

Tries - O'Hare (18mins & 79mins), Roberts (33mins), Reilly (38mins, 56mins & 61mins), Hallas (41mins), Langley (53mins & 69mins), Thorman (69mins).

Goals - McNamara 3 from 6, Thorman 3 from 4.

Dewsbury Rams - Mack; Miles, Moore, Longo, Wainwright; Redfern (Woolford 63mins), Elston; Watene (Gibbons 38mins), Brough, Fella, Roberts (Taylor 40mins), Kirk (Ward 44mins), Parker.

Tries - Wainwright (50mins & 73mins).

Goals - Brough 3 from 3.

Half-time - 16-2.

Referee - Karl Kirkpatrick (Warrington).

Attendance - 2,417.

Scrums won - Huddersfield 7, Dewsbury 9.

Penalties conceded - Huddersfield 11, Dewsbury 15.

Top Giants tacklers - Rice 28, March 23, McNamara 20, Hayes 20, Plume 17.

Next Giants game - Cup quarter-final on May 12.