Tyldesley 29 West Park 32

LEADING 19 points to nil after just 15 minutes, holders West Park must have felt that passage into the Lancs Trophy quarter final was a formality.

But Tyldesley clearly had other ideas and in the end only a penalty by youngster Andrew Soutar and some desperate defence saw the Red Rocks men through to a visit to Blackburn or Broughton Park in the next round.

An interception by Rishworth school student Soutar put fly-half Phil Lawrenson over for Park's opening try which he converted himself. Then Lawrenson's clever break sent Gary Monaghan scorchingover wide out for the second try.

Then Soutar touched down and Lawrenson's conversion gave the visitors a 19-point lead.

Obviously, feeling the game was already won Park visibly relaxed and Tyldesley took full advantage with a penalty, two tries and a conversion.

Park came back to life and Lawrenson, now operating at scrum-half in place of the injured Darren Wilson, dummied over between the posts and added the goal to produce a 26-15 lead at half-time.

From the restart a Park mistake let Tyldesley in for a try, the conversion closing the gap to just four points.

Lawrenson's retirement with a leg injury saw Phil Houlton, who figured at prop, hooker and flanker last week, moving to work the scrum, with Neil Ryan on at stand-off.

Soutar took over the goal kicking to stretch the gap to seven points only for Tyldesley to score a converted try to level the scores at 29 all with 15 minutes remaining. The youngster then showed his maturity to land the winning penalty from straight in front leaving Park an uncomfortable final 10 minutes to hold out.

On Saturday Park have a vital home league game against third placed Caldy with a 3pm kick-off. Match sponsors are J P Wilson, and matchball sponsors Lowton Bakery.