Carlisle 4 – 42 Seaton Rangers.

This game started with a fine try for Seaton’s loose forward James Wilson, after two drives from the kick off the ball was shipped wide and Wilson broke the line and outpaced the defence to score. Carlisle was then awarded a penalty in front of the Seaton sticks, which their giant number 10 converted. Seaton immediately hit back with a well worked try from Jordan Tinkler out wide. Seaton’s fullback Shane Ackerly scored next from a deft little pass by Callum Phillips from 20 metres out, Tinkler converted and at 14 – 2 to Seaton after only ten minutes it looked like a long afternoon for Carlisle. However Carlisle stuck to their game and dug in to force the errors, this only spurred Seaton on and James Wilson bagged his brace on 20 minutes, Jon Richardson converted. Alex McDonald scored next from fast hands out wide and the half finished 2-24 to the visitors.

The second half followed a similar pattern with Lee Dixon scoring a fine try bursting several tackles to crash over, Ackerly and McDonald completed their braces and Tinkler added three more conversions. Carlisle had the final say through their number 10 converting a penalty kick from 40 metres out. Seaton needed this game to blow out the cobwebs and prepare for sterner tests to come. It has to be said that the Carlisle team deserve a lot of credit; they gave their all and never stopped running for the full sixty minutes.