Darlington MP .......34 Sale FC ....................38
By BILL JENKINS

SALE FC edged out hosts Darlington in the narrowest of contests.
The visitors were quick out of the blocks, scoring three tries within 16 minutes.
First, Josh Brown dotted down and then
Fergus Mulchrone broke the defence, before Mark Dixon finished well, with two of the three converted by James Robins.
Mowden rang the changes, bringing on Oscar Usher and Reuben Parsons in the pack, and that made an immediate impact, with Usher taking a strong carry, and offloading to Parsons to set Yaree Fantini away.
Usher f...