RUGBY UNION SCENE with Andrew Stratton

OLDERSHAW reached the quarter-finals of the Cheshire Cup, on Saturday, with a 49-18 derby victory over Anselmians. They helped themselves to eight tries via Danny Coburn, 2, Keith Warren, Steve Clarke, Peter Coghlan, Chris Jones, Ed McCullough and John Shudall, while Willy Gardner added three conversions and a penalty.

Steve Hearn and Ben Peel went over for the losers, with Tony Neville landing a conversion and a brace of penalties.

Birkenhead Park went out 12-14 at the hands of Northwich and had centre Ian Stanton taken to hospital. The visitors got all the refereeing decisions and a penalty, deep into injury time, swung the balance.

Park scored tries through Tom Mapp and Dominic Ford, plus a Greg Cann goal. Northwich had a try and three penalties.

Caldy conceded their tie to Macclesfield and Ashton-on-Mersey also threw in the towel against New Brighton.

In the Cheshire Plate competition, Parkonians beat Ramsey, Isle of Man, 15-5 with tries from Dave and Paul Browne and Paul Hillan.

Hoylake beat Port Sunlight 17-0 in a re-arranged South Lancashire/Cheshire League Division Three match. Ben Flint and Martin Williams grabbed tries and Max Williams two conversions and a penalty.

League matches this Saturday include Birkenhead Park v Aspull, Oldershaw v Ashton-on-Mersey, Caldy v Egremont, St Edward's v Wirral, Eagle v Anselmians, Parkonians v St Mary's and Dukinfield v Wallasey.

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