Bradford & Bingley continued their winning form with a 25-20 North One East victory at Driffield.

Having witnessed the Bees tear apart Pocklington in the last 20 minutes of their previous game, this was a game which ultimately the hosts could have won as the Wagon Laners failed to convert dominant positions into points.

The lively Driffield backline latched on to a couple of chances to pull themselves within five points with more than a quarter of the game to go.

In the final 25 minutes both sides had opportunities to win the game but on balance the victory for the visitors was the right outcome given their earlier dominance.

Bees got off to the best possible start with Aaron Magee stretching away from the defence to dot down just inside the whitewash after some slick handling following a forward drive up the gut of the Driffield defence.

Tom Johnson was next on the score sheet on 13 minutes as he jinked this way and that and pulled off a switch move to put himself clear under the sticks.

Johnson is currently managing that difficult balance of being slightly maverick in his approach, but yet utterly consistent every week, leaving defenders chasing shadows as he pulls the strings from the number 10 shirt.

The Bees are far from a one-man show though as the forwards kept the Driffield pack honest in the tight game.

And with skipper Tom Booth also leading the charge with ball in hand, the Bees looked unstoppable in the first quarter of an hour.

Driffield then started to show they can play a bit too and, after Watts slotted a penalty, Ben Dinsdale was over the whitewash after a lovely pass from his scrum half.

In the ten minutes before half-time, Bees continued to have enough of an upper hand to get more points on the scoreboard. Flanker Tom Bacon duly obliged on 38 minutes as a break from scrum half Lance Taylor got the Bees to within reach of the opposition line before Johnson fed Bacon to score.

Perhaps Bees were thinking about half-time as they allowed Driffield back up the pitch in time added on for James Dindsdale to claim the score.

The interval score of 17-15 didn't reflect the nature of the game but Bees didn't hang about in the second period with the home defence at sixes and sevens.

Jack Malthouse ran a great line to push the lead out to 22-15 with two minutes on the clock. The next time the Bees had the ball in attacking range they possibly acknowledged the increased threat of the home back line by electing to slot a penalty to push the lead out to ten points.

Driffield continued to defy the difficult windy conditions and their enterprise was rewarded on 52 minutes with a score from Dinsdale.

The home side may feel that they had enough chances to go on and win but the higher than expected error count from the Bees only stopped them from claiming a more handsome victory.