Oswestry punish lack of discipline as Luctonians swept aside

A feisty opening spell saw the visitors lose the services of No8 Josh Jukes to the sin bin but the hosts failed to capitalised on their advantage and were kept out by the strong Luctonian defence. 

Instead it was the visitors who weathered the storm and opened the scoring with a converted try and soon doubled their lead to leave the Eagles 14 points adrift.

Oswestry were sparked into life with strong runs from Nathan Sumang and Jacob Jones coming to nothing before the latter surged through to offload to No8 Cameron Breen to crash over.

Action from Oswestry's win over Luctonians. Picture by Nick Evans Jones.

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Luctonians further extended their lead after the break with a penalty.

Oswestry now began their fightback which began with a penalty from the boot of Iwan Ellis.

From the restart Sumang went on the attack and passed the ball to Ollie Pearson-Wright who was able to score the second Oswestry try. 

Action from Oswestry's win over Luctonians. Picture by Nick Evans Jones.

Sumang continued to inspire and with 20 minutes remaining another surging run culminated in linking with Pearson-Wright and Breen before Jed Corbett was illegally tackled and Jukes saw red for the visitors.

Ellis landed the penalty as indiscipline set in the visitors’ game and were reduced to 13 men when another player was sin-binned with Oswestry awarded a penalty try to lead for the first time.

Iwan Ellis scored his side’s fourth try of the game before Oswestry were awarded another penalty try while the visitors were reduced to 12 men following even more indiscipline in their ranks.