Blackburn 22 Fleetwood 3 BLACKBURN continued with their good run of results with a convincing 22-3 home win against Lancashire rivals Fleetwood.

Early exchanges were fairly even until Burn scored the game’s opening try in the 8th minute when a catch and drive from a line out ended with the ball spun wide for Adam Stubbs and the winger ran in from 35 metres out.

Blackburn crossed for a second try six minutes later when, from a quick tap and go penalty, Danny Holland made a darting run but was stopped just 10 metres short of the line.

However, he managed to offload to the supporting Chris Lowden and the captain crashed over to make it 10-0.

As with the first try, Sean Hall was unable to add the extras.

The home side were well on top but Fleetwood hit back with three points after Burn were penalised shortly after the restart. Burn started to build pressure on Fleetwood again, a series of five metre scrums had the away side pinned down deep into their own 22 – and their task was not helped as they had a man sin binned as he kicked the ball out of the scrum as Burn were driving their opponents back over their own line.

A referee opted against awarded a penalty try and gave just a penalty instead. But a third try arrived soon after with Jordan Pearson touching down for a push over try. The conversion attempt was again unsuccessful and Blackburn lead 15-3 at the break.

Burn would have hoped to have pushed on in the second half, but it was Fleetwood who started the better and they dominated territory for much of the second half.

But the visitors could not convert their territory superiority into points with great credit going to Blackburn’s solid defence.

The home side were briefly down to 13 players when first Liam Oldham then Sean Hall were sin-binned but Fleetwood failed to take advantage.

Despite the lack of possession it was Blackburn who scored the last points of the game.

A surging run by Pearson ended with the rampaging back rower breaking numerous tackles to score under the posts. Cameron Boulter kicked the conversion to make it 22-3 at the final whistle.