Gate hit back to defeat Hoppers

By HENRY WOODSFORD
Preston G …32
Harrogate …48
HARROGATE conjured a second-half comeback to beat Preston Grasshoppers in an 11-try thriller at Lightfoot Green.
Gate were 25-12 down at half-time but scored 33 points to take maximum points back to Yorkshire.
The visitors broke the deadlock after only two minutes when Keane Naylor ghosted through a gap, but Sam Fox missed the conversion.
Hoppers responded well eight minutes later when Matt Beaty crossed the whitewash and Lewis Allen added the extras.
Sam Gale then scored a well taken try, running onto a Tom Forster offload at pac...

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