Rampant Lymm in show of strength on road

■By DESMOND HICKIE

Chester………….. 19

Lymm…………….. 51

LYMM were certainly not flattered by this one-sided result, outscoring the home side seven tries to three.

Impressive kicking from half-backs Callum Morris and Thomas Shard kept them on the front foot. In response, the forwards produced plenty of quick ball and carried strongly.

This enabled an impressive midfield to look for and find space in a Chester defence that couldn’t reorganise fast enough.

As a result, the visitors were able to take an unassailable 36-point lead into the second half. A couple of unforced errors allowed Lymm their first attacking line-out from which they moved infield and then back blind for the speedy wing Pat Jennings to cross in the corner after seven minutes.

Chester responded immediately with a charge-down try from George Spalding, but were unable to convert the chances that came their way for the remainder of the first half. Meanwhile, Lymm added tries from Morris, Nathan Bees-ley, Harry Saxton-Martin, and a brace from Steve Pilkington.

Chester did get some joy from their scrum the second period, successfully driving a line-out for Jonny Hanson to score after 56 minutes and creating a well-worked score for wing Joe Heaton at the death.