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25 Nov 2017

Hull take the spoils against Leeds

University round-up | Premier North
Hull take the spoils against Leeds

By Daniel Richardson 

In the Premier North this week, Hull came back from a week off to host Leeds, the home side came away with the points after a 40-24 win.

Hull managed three tries more than their opposition, after they got over the line seven times in comparison to just the four scored by Leeds.

Kieran Smith was successful with six of his seven attempts on goal, as well as getting himself a try during the match.

Jack Scott and Joe Mankel both got one try each to add to their side's lead, but it was Nathan Hill and Kyle Saunders who made the largest impact.

The pair scored twice each, with Saunders later being awarded the home team's man-of-the-match.

Hull's Coach, Richard Tate, said: "I thought our middles were great today. They carried the ball very strong and got us on the front foot for big parts of the game.

"Leeds played really well and caused us some problems, especially in the latter stages of the first half when we were giving away too many penalties and making silly errors with ball in hand.

But we got our heads together at half time, played at a high tempo in the second half and got our rewards for a great effort."


Elsewhere in the Premier North, Leeds Beckett earned a whitewash victory over Nottingham after a 74-0 thrashing. Although Nottingham did have one stand out performer in Matt Boyers, who was the away team's man-of-the-match.

The Nottingham captain, Adam Simm, is hoping his side take some serious lessons from this week’s defeat. He said: "We stuck at it to the end, the new lads got a lot and it was a massive learning curve for some of us."

The final game saw Northumbria continue their solid start to the season, as they beat Newcastle 28-8 this week. Billy Sturdy was the only try scorer for Newcastle. 

The conversion was successful from Matt Hogg, who also kicked a penalty but Harry May was awarded with the man-of-the-match.