CLECKHEATON powered to a 43-5 North One East victory at home to Percy Park, turning in their best performance of the season.

Ryan Piercy returned to the second row, replacing Brad Marsden who was unavailable in the only change from the previous week's victory at Morley.

Park kicked off with the wind in their favour but were put under early pressure which paid dividends when captain Matt Piper burst through some weak tackling to score to the right of the posts and Dale Breakwell converted.

The visitors made some progress down field and a rolling maul was stopped short of the line by some resolute defence, with Joey Carley leading the way. Park had a very effective lineout but the Cleck pack was dominant in the scrums.

From deep inside the home 22, Jack Seddon charged up to halfway and, after two quick phases, the ball was worked to Mike Hayward who crossed wide on the right. Breakwell added a towering conversion to continue his impressive goal kicking run.

Breakwell added another penalty goal on 28 minutes and the dominance of the home team pack led to a third try when a disrupted scrum saw Seddon gallop towards the line. He was hauled down less than a metre short but Mike Swetman was in support to plunge over and Breakwell’s boot made it 24-0 at half-time.

Percy Park came out with renewed vigour in the second half and scored a try wide on the right after good hands by both backs and forwards.

Cleck responded as Danny Booth burst clear on halfway and looked certain to score but the referee adjudged he had been held up over the line by a superb cover tackle. The five-metre scrum that followed was rumbled forward and Seddon controlled the ball at No 8 to dive over for the bonus point score.

Breakwell added the conversion to give him 11 consecutive successes since joining the club.

Paul Turner was yellow-carded on 70 minutes for deliberately slowing down play in an offside position. This was followed two minutes later with a red card for the opposition for an alleged abusive comment.

It mattered little as Breakwell and Booth combined down the middle, the latter finding Hayward on his shoulder who went in for a score wide on the left. Breakwell’s run of successful conversions came to an end but Cleck were running away with it at 36-5.

The final score came in added time when Matt Piper, Booth, Hayward and Wilson combined and when a maul formed, Swetman was on hand to cross for his second try.

This was a very encouraging performance from Cleckheaton, with Breakwell’s tactical kicking putting the pack on the front foot.

Seddon had an outstanding game as did Carley and they shared the man of the match.

The five league points moved them up a place to tenth ahead of their derby at Bradford & Bingley.