After a shaky first half, Hoppers managed to turn the game around to seal a bonus point win. 6 tries, including a long range effort from Matt Lamprey, meant the game ended 32-12.
With Hull drawing at Harrogate and Lymm suffering a defeat away at Wirral, the gap at the top increases.
Here are the other results:
Birkenhead Park 12 – 32 Preston Grasshoppers
Hull 24 – 24 Harrogate
Ilkley 5 – 17 Billingham
Kendal 47 – 6 Pocklington
Kirkby Lonsdale 24 – 25 Rossendale
Sandal 17 – 24 Morley
Wirral 20 – 14 Lymm
Here’s how the league looks now:
| P | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Bonus Point | Adjust | |||||||
| Preston Grasshoppers | 16 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 487 | 226 | 261 | 75 | 13 | 0 | ||||||
| Lymm | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 428 | 165 | 263 | 58 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Hull | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 471 | 211 | 260 | 57 | 13 | 0 | ||||||
| Billingham | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 439 | 251 | 188 | 50 | 8 | 0 | ||||||
| Harrogate | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 373 | 289 | 84 | 48 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Wirral | 15 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 383 | 336 | 47 | 45 | 9 | 0 | ||||||
| Rossendale | 13 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 292 | 322 | -30 | 39 | 7 | 0 | ||||||
| Kendal | 16 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 365 | 361 | 4 | 37 | 7 | 0 | ||||||
| Ilkley | 15 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 299 | 343 | -44 | 32 | 8 | 0 | ||||||
| Kirkby Lonsdale | 15 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 341 | 330 | 11 | 31 | 11 | 0 | ||||||
| Sandal | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 306 | 381 | -75 | 27 | 9 | 0 | ||||||
| Birkenhead Park | 15 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 249 | 524 | -275 | 16 | 6 | 0 | ||||||
| Morley | 15 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 211 | 460 | -249 | 14 | 4 | 0 | ||||||
| Pocklington | 16 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 207 | 652 | -445 | 10 | 4 | 0 | ||||||
