Bradford And Sheffield To Face Off In Championship Shield Final

25 September 2016 05:35

Bradford and Sheffield Eagles will contest the final of the Kingstone Press Championship Shield at Odsal next Sunday.

The Bulls booked their place with a 36-22 semi-final win over Dewsbury while the Eagles bounced back from a humiliating 80-0 thrashing by Bradford to pull off a shock 46-32 win at Halifax.

Alex Mellor scored two tries and created one for Kieren Moss while Dane Chisholm, Kris Welham, Danny Williams and Ethan Ryan also touched down and Lewis Charnock kicked four goals for Bradford, who led 20-4 at the break.

Andy Kain,.Jason Crookes, Josh Guzdek and Toby Adamson were Dewsbury's tryscorers and Shane Grady kicked three goals.

Sheffield put their off-field troubles to one side and never looked back after racing into a 26-0 lead after 28 minutes thanks to tries from Rhys Jacks, Scott Wheeldon, Adam Neal and George Tyson and five goals from Cory Aston.

James Woodburn-Hall sparked a Halifax fightback with the first of his three tries and Ed Barber, Brandon Moore and Mitch Cahalane added others, with Gareth Moore kicking four goals.

But the Eagles always had a big enough cushion and added further tries in the second half through Tyson, Rob Worrincy and Garry Lo, with Aston taking his goal tally to nine.

Meanwhile, Barrow will play Toulouse Olympique for a place in the Championship after beating Doncaster 46-6 in their play-off semi-final.

Source: PA-WIRE