Keighley Cougar Cubs 22 Milford Marlins U-16s 28

If this were a fisherman's tale it would be about the one that got away.

Twice the Cubs had the Marlins on the hook unfortunately they didn't reel them in tight enough, allowing them to slip away as they gave them too much slack.

The home side started slowly with Milford scoring first.

The Cubs then seemed to react positively playing some of their best rugby of the season and levelled the scores when Charlie Eccleston wormed over from close range.

The Cubs then capitalised on a Milford mistake and moved the ball wide for Sam Walker to score in the corner, Callum Hudson converting from the touch line.

At this point in the game the Cubs were on fire and went further ahead with arguably the best try at Utley so far this year.

Moving the ball wide to winger Ecclestone who backed himself on the outside before cutting infield to offload to the supporting James Haythornthwaite - who darted in to score near the posts, Hudson obliging with the extras.

With only five minutes to go to half time Milford scored twice to level the scores, both tries on the back of dubious decisions by the referee.

The second half was evenly balanced the Cougars open style of rugby being spoiled by some intimidating tactics from the visitors.

It took a touch of individual magic from scrum half Llywelyn Chapman to break the stalemate midway through the half as he dummied and side stepped through thirty metres out before sprinting for the line Hudson again converting.

Unfortunately Keighley failed to land the points, again allowing the Marlins to break the line, scoring two further tries and a goal. The Cubs need to learn from this match and keep their composure when they take the lead this was definitely one that got away.

Wibsey U-14s 10 Keighley Cougar Cubs 22 The U-14s confirmed their recent dominance over Wibsey with an excellent team performance that with more passing interplay could have led to the Cubs to a big score against a team that in recent seasons has had the upper hand on the Cubs.

Wibsey however started strongly with their two strong centres probing the Cubs defence.

A repeat set of six tackles by Wibsey was just too much for the Cubs to contain and allowed Wibsey to open the scoring with try from distance.

The Cubs then started to string moves together that put Wibsey on the back foot.

Conor Caveney and Jake Dunn took two drives and sucked in the Wibsey defence to allow space for Josh Lynam and Martyn Broadley to set up a passing move that sent Chris Spencer in for a try in the corner that Ben Stead converted.

The Cubs stepped up a gear in the second half with Josh Ives and Ben Stead co-ordinating team movement well.

The ever improving Shaun Newton tackled everything that moved to thwart what attacking moves Wibsey threw at them - ably assisted by Wasim Shabir and Josh Lynam. Indeed it was Lynam that scored the Cubs next try, again from a lovely passing move that proved that quick hands between Ben Stead, Jamie Pickles and Spencer can lead to excellent tries.

Spencer converted from the touchline.

A try for Wibsey against the run of play was the catalyst for the Cubs to go into overdrive.

Jordan Aitchison was unlucky not to score from a mazy run from the half way line that bamboozled the defence who caught up with the pacey halfback just before the try line.

Aaron Tattersall Jarvis then showed that size and determined running can tear defences apart.

Picking the ball up from 25 yards, he set on a barnstorming drive that Wibsey could not handle to score in the corner.

Ben Stead scored the final try of the game, breaking through the tired defence to make the score more representative of the Cubs dominance.

Elsewhere, the U-18s team racked up a victory over Hensingham with a 16-14 win.