Watch out for Stonyhurst

Stonyhurst have put down their marker in the north by following up their55-0 win at Rossal with a 53-0 third round victory at Arnold, who are not abad team.

There were hat-tricks for Luke Langford and Matt Scholes asStonyhurst showed good continuity, skill and pace against strong and wellmotivated opponents.

RGS Newcastle and Lymm are two other sides alreadythrough to the fourth round, RGS routing Barnard Castle 66-29 with AlexClarke scoring three of their ten tries and Lymm ending King's Pontefractrun with an emphatic 41-12 away win.

King's were always on the back footagainst quick, well drilled and powerful opposition.

Lymm led 12-5 at halftime but although King's drew level the Cheshire team then took charge.

Kyle Holcroft scored three more tries to take his total to seven in thecompetition and Ben Lester weighed in with a memorable drop goal from hisown 10m line.