Amateur RU: Huddersfield 10 Macclesfield 20

Oct 19 2009 by David Lockwood, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Damian Clayton replaced Joel Hinchliffe at scrum half on 50 minutes and 10 minutes later on came skipper Mark Whitehead and Entressengle in place of Gareth Lewis and James Davies.

But then having regained Hyde from the sin-bin, Huddersfield were immediately back down to 14 when the referee yellow-carded Johnson for interference.

From that offence Winney kicked his second penalty to extend Macclesfield’s lead to 20-3 and that was the way it looked like staying.

Whitehead showed glimpses of what Huddersfield had been missing in attack with two jinking runs, the second of which so nearly brought a try for winger Adam Sutcliffe, only for him to be tackled into touch close to the line.

In the last few of minutes the visitors began to look a little ragged as they also lost two players to the sin-bin, Neil Keane followed a minute later by Richard Hughes, and Huddersfield took advantage with the forwards driving on strongly which led to Entressengle notching his debut first-team try.

Johnson converted and the home side finished the stronger of the two and they desperately chased another late score which would have at least brought them a bonus point, but it was not to be.

Overall it was a much-improved effort, but on Saturday they were up against a very well-drilled and organised team who could well turn out to be the team to beat this year.

Huddersfield: Owen’ Ryder, Van Vuuren, Paxman (L), Sutcliffe; Johnson, Hinchliffe (Clayton 50); Slater, Davies (Entressengle 60), Stringwell, Rhodes, Harris, Sharpe (Hinchliffe 75), Lewis (Whitehead 60), Hyde.

Macclesfield: Eaton, Simpson, Hughes, Howcroft, Fowles, Winney, Townsend, Mantell, Allen, Kent, Jones, Lear, Baines, Stewart, Keep. Subs: Devin, Moss, Kean.

Referee: Steve Lee.

YMCA scored a narrow 30-25 win in an entertaining home encounter with Ripon in Yorkshire Division II.

Full report and pictures in tomorrow’s Examiner Sport.