Ormskirk 27 Ruskin Park 12 DUE to injuries and unavailability, Ruskin toook a scratch side to Ormskirk for this friendly on Saturday.

Ruskin's forwards struggled to secure their share of clean ball from the line-out and scrums, leaving Ormskirk the time to build their attacks.

The result was that the home side scored four first-half tries, one converted. Ruksin's solitary reply was a try by second-rower Fisher.

After the break veteran centre Vinnie Wood crashed through the home defence . Pilkington added the conversion to bring Ruskin to within 10 points.

However, they could not sustain their momentum and Ormskirk added another try just before full time.

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