LANCASTER'S summer rugby league season got off to a flying start with a 40-12 win over local rivals Blackpool Sea Eagles at Giant Axe at the weekend.
But a whole new challenge is awaiting the men in the Lancaster team.
They will be playing against each other next Tuesday, May 11, in a special 'origin' challenge to commemorate the day 100 years ago when Morecambe and Lanca-ster teams met for the only time in the Northern Union Challenge Cup, rugby league's most prestigious competition
Lancaster came out on top after a replay in 1904 - and next week the local players of Lancaster and Heysham Atoms will forget club loyalties to split into resort and city teams in the re-enactment.
The game will be played at Giant Axe, with kick off timed for 7pm.
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