Kendal 46 - 3 Bolton

KENDAL maintained their perfect start to the North One West campaign and moved to the summit of the table as they ran in eight tries against newly promoted Bolton.

With Rhys Studt and Chris Park injured, their places were taken by Blake Robinson and Leo Mercer while Dan Lowther moved to fullback and Bob Mataia into the centre.

After spending the first ten minutes defending, Kendal opened the scoring with their first attack on the nine minute mark.

Mark Carruthers put a long kick to the corner and a good chase forced a Bolton player to put the ball to touch.

Having won the resulting lineout, the Kendal forwards were in control as they set up a drive to the line for Robinson to break away to score. Nathan Wooff converted to give Kendal the lead.

Bolton opened their account after twenty minutes with a long range penalty after Kendal lost their own lineout ball.

Kendal extended their lead shortly after through Richard Harryman.

The ball was moved quickly from a scrum on the left with Wooff and then Mercer taking the ball to the line on the right.

With the defence sucked in, James Gough floated a long pass to Harryman who powered over from short range before Wooff converted to give Kendal a 14-3 lead.

From the kick off Kendal came straight back with Alistair Thompson finishing with a try after the ball being quickly moved through numerous hands.

The final score of the half came from Wooff, who weaved through numerous weak tackles for a solo try to end a move started with a good run from Mark Carruthers.

At half-time Billy Coxon came on for Harryman but Kendal had back row Chris Downham sin binned soon after the restart.

Despite being a man down Kendal continued to attack with Lowther going to the line. Despite being held up the forwards kept the pressure on for Mataia to wriggle over for his first try to give Kendal a commanding 31-3 lead.

More forward pressure, with a number of backs adding their weight, set up the next try from short range for James Gough.

Wooff was injured in the move and forced off. New signing Glen Weightman entered the field to make his debut after several weeks on the touchline due to a niggling injury.

The seventh Kendal try came from more forward pressure on the left.

When the ball came back Weightman floated a long pass for Lowther to power over, but he could not add the conversion.

Kendal brought their final substitute on with Josh Chaplow replacing Robinson and found themselves under pressure as Bolton searched for a consolation try - but the Kendal defence held firm.

The final score came with a second try from short range for Gough.