Leigh Miners Rangers 42, Ideal Isberg 22: LEIGH Miners Rangers picked up their first win of the season with a comfortable victory over a gutsy Humberside outfit.

With both sides fielding youthful teams, this was an open and entertaining game but both coaches will be looking to tighten defences in the coming weeks.

However, the Miners always seemed to have enough in reserve to dominate and with Alan Reddicliffe in masterful form at stand-off, the home side scored some spectacular tries in their success.

First score

Miners raced into an early lead with Simon Hartley bursting through for the first score before a Sean Phoenix 40/20 saw Neil Donlan notch his first senior try.

When Craig Graham grabbed a thirds after a fluid passing movement, the Miners were scoring at more than a point a minute.

Ideal pulled a score back when Hartley fumbled Terry Smirk's kick and Joe wardell was presented with a walk-in try.

But the Miners were still well cvlear by the interval with Tommy Goulden scoring of a Phoenix break and Reddicliffe notching his first from Goulden's burst before a late try gave Ideal a glimmer of hope at the break.

Any hopes of an Ideal comeback were dashed when Stuart Coates was sin-binned for holding down and then Reddicliffe intercepted a loose pass to race in for his second try to kill the game.

The visitors top player, Sean Sutton, charged in for a well-deserved try as the defences started to relax and both teams added further scores in the last quarter. Phoenix raced in for a Miners try, Hartley went in from 40 metres while Ideal's Chris Caville went the length of the field.