Wigan St Judes 40-40 Beverley

14 tries and 12 goals and the final score of 40 all says it all for entertainment as St Jude’s welcomes Beverley to the Meadow in the NCL Div 2 game on Saturday. In a very eventful game ,which at times was like a game of tick and pass as the lead changed hands several times and the final score was always in doubt as defences where none existent. Connor Parkinson, Olumide Oladele, Aaron Smith. Joey Brady, Josh Hill and Reece Storey on his debut were on their game. Jude’s Try scorers were Connor Parkinson 2, Joey Brady 2 , Scott Robinson 1 , Josh Hill 1 and Gavin Rodden 1 and 6 goals from Danny Fallon. Late on a serious injury to a Beverley player stopped the game for 20 mins and the referee made a decision to switch to the other pitch for the final 3 mins and the game restarted with a Jude’s attack and Connor Parkinson’s late try under the posts snatched a remarkable draw.

Wigan St Judes 44-12 Rochdale Mayfield

Judes 18s won away at Rochdale Mayfield in the league 44-12.
Stand out performers were Jack Barnes who's scored 4 tries, Deacon Ashcroft & Saul Mills
Next week Crosfields at home

Wigan St Judes 32-14 Chorley Panthers

Judes attention turned back to the League with a visit of Chorley to the Meadow. The lads were at 13 players and we ready to go! The game started with both teams trading sets until Judes were down in Chorley’s 20 and the ball was passed quickly left to right to TJ who went over for the opening try. Converted by Leon. Judes tails were up and they attacked with pace and power. Debutant Logan Walls, made a well timed pass to Liam on his left who raced in from half way to score on the left edge. All the kicking practice paid off as Leon slotted the conversion over from the touchline. The game was strongly contested by both teams, but on a kick return, Judes knocked on and a few plays later Chorley went over for their first try. Just prior to half time, Judes had a scrum 10m out, the ball was passed quickly left to right and Jake crashed over.
Half time 16-4
In the second half, Judes wanted to push on and did so early on with a break from Jake who ran 70m to score. Then followed a period of letting Chorley back into the game with a soft try from the base of a scrum. Judes just didn’t move in and Chorley took advantage. Following that, in the next few sets Judes successfully defended 3 consecutive sets and 18 tackles, forcing a knock on on the last. As time was drifting away, Judes scores through Jordan sneaking over on the right edge. Then Chorley went in again only for Judes to cancel it out with another well timed pass from Logan to send Dylan Foster racing 70m away.
On that the game finished, brilliant performance by everyone. The biggest positive being mindset and voices !
Tries - TJ Downing, Liam Ryding, Jake Liptrot 2, Jordan Taylor, Dylan Foster.
Conversions - Leon Trafford x 4
Completion - 55%

Awards - Man of the Match - Jake Liptrot
Most Improved - Dylan Foster
Captain’s Choice - Logan Walls

Wigan St Judes v Crosfields

Crosfields could only muster up 9 players so Judes were awarded the points. However, as the Judes team had travelled over to Warrington, both parties agreed to play with Judes loaning 3 players to make a game of it. Credit to the Judes lads for having a game for the opposition in what was a pretty decent opposed training game.

Wigan St Judes 40-32 Leigh east

Trophy winners- Jack Needham, Daniel Stanton, Harry Myers and Andre Kelly.
Try scorers- Harry Myers 3, Ethan Cozens 2, Jack Needham 2, Evan Clarke 2 and Andre Kelly 1.