Alstead bags four tries for Centurions (From Leigh Journal)

Alstead bags four tries for Centurions

2:21pm Thursday 11th March 2010 in

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Leigh Centurions 52 Wath brow Hornets 4

FOUR tries from Dave Alstead and a good display from Martyn Ridyard helped Centurions into round four of the Carnegie Challenge Cup as they made light work of Wath Brow Hornets.

After taking the lead after four minutes and producing a good holding period in the first half, National Conference League Hornets were no match for Leigh, who eventually registered 10 tries.

Brow started the game at great pace and when former Whitehaven prop Scott Teare sliced through from half way he then found Peter Caddy.

The winger looked covered with Nick Stanton moving in for the tackle but when the Centurions player slipped, Caddy got up to touch down.

Leigh struck back immediately when the influential Ridyard sent Tommy Goulden in for the first of two tries after seven minutes. Ridyard and Robbie Paul then sparked a flowing move that also included Stuart Donlan and Steve Maden and led to Alstead scoring at the corner. A towering conversion from Mick Nanyn made it 12-4.

Some spirited play from Wath Brow kept the scoreboard at a standstill for over 20 minutes but the game fizzled into life again when Stanton moved into dummy half and burst through two tackles before skipping past another and cleverly using the referee as a foil to swerve past full back Ryan Amor. It was a glorious finish from 60 metres.

Then Maden pushed swerved one man before popping the ball out for Alstead to claim his second try to give Leigh a 22-4 lead half-time lead.

Centurions scored a further six tries in the second half and blasted out of the starting blocks when Hill, David Armitstead and Ridyard combined to put Nanyn through for the first of his two tries.

Robbie Paul got in on the act to bring Hill a second try in two games with a lovely cut-out pass and more followed in the last quarter as Hornets tired.

Ridyard and Maden went down the right to bring up Alstead's hat-trick after 62 minutes and when stand off Ridyard grubber kicked to the in-goal area it bounced up for Goulden to ground.

Paul was rested midway through the second half with Tim Hartley partnering Ridyard at halfback and the two linked things well before MacGraff Leuluai drew the defence for Alstead to claim his fourth try 10 minutes from time.

Ridyard again created space for Maden to get Nanyn over for his second try before the big centre struck his sixth goal to complete a personal tally of 20 points.

Leigh: Stuart Donlan; Dave Alstead, Steve Maden, Mick Nanyn, Nick Stanton; Martyn Ridyard, Robbie Paul; Ricky Bibey, Dave McConnell, Mike Morrison, Tommy Goulden, MacGraff Leuluai, James Taylor. Subs: Chris Hill, David Armitstead, Andy Ainscough, Tim Hartley.