Saturday 23^rd January 2010, Challenge Cup round 1.

Crosfields 12 Rochdale Mayfield 22

Mayfield continue on the road to Wembley as they made it through to the second round of the Carnegie Challenge Cup, thanks to a late flourish that finally ended the hopes of a spirited crosfields effort. Mayfield opened strongly with big defence and commited attack led by ben simpson and joe robinson, but again lacked a little finesse in the final third of the pitch, until on 20 minutes the outstanding eamon hillen opened the warrington sides defences and steve wood was backing up inside to score. Mayfield failed to capitalize and finished the half with a number of unforced errors that gave crosfields hope and plenty of field position, which they converted into points to snatch a 6-4 interval lead.

Tries showing genuine pace from hillen and paul lane gave Mayfield breathing space but with only one conversion kicked Mayfield held a tentative 6-14 lead when crosfields had a try disallowed for a forward pass. Mayfield did not heed the warning though and dropped the ball from the resultant scrum to allow crosfields a well deserved try that they converted to get within 2 points at 12-14. Mayfield steadied the ship with hard graft from lee Atkinson who capped a fine display of effort with a late try that secured the game for Mayfield. John marsland added the conversion and a last minute penalty goal for Mayfield, who go into the hat for the round 2 draw.