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Saturday, 6 July, 2002, 19:07 GMT 20:07 UK
Tigers resist Broncos comeback
Darren Rogers scored two tries for Castleford
London 20-24 Castleford
Castleford Tigers survived a late London Broncos surge to pick up their second victory of the season at Griffin Park. The visitors looked to be in complete control until London's Nigel Roy touched down three minutes from time to set up an exciting finish. And only a timely intervention from Barrie-John Mather, collecting Jim Dymock's kick over his own line in the dying seconds, prevented the Broncos from completing what would have been a stunning comeback.
The Broncos started strongly when Steve Hall's 70-metre run gave Tony Martin the chance to cross the line from close range - Martin added the conversion the touchline. The Broncos had another effort ruled out on 10 minutes before Castleford's Darren Rogers applied the finishing touch to Michael Eagar's kick. Wayne Bartrim levelled the scores with a conversion. The Tigers took the lead for the first time on the half-hour mark with Danny Orr touching down after Mitch Healey had kicked ahead. Rogers then scored his second after intercepting Dymock's pass two minutes before half-time. The straightforward conversion gave Castleford a 10-point lead at the break.
Waine Pryce and Mather both had tries ruled out for the visitors before Bartrim added a 62nd-minute penalty with team-mate Dean Sampson in the sin bin for interference.
The Broncos pulled themselves back into the game on 64 minutes when Michael Gillett burst through the Castleford defence and put Russell Bowden in for the try. Martin added the goal. Martin kicked a 72nd-minute penalty to reduce the arrears to just four points only to see Lee Harland score from Bartrim's kick from dummy half. Bartrim then added the conversion. The visitors looked to be home and dry until Roy gave the home side a glimmer of hope with a try converted by Martin, but somehow Cas managed to hang on to both points.
London: Sykes, Houles, Roy, Martin, Hall, Dymock, Moran,
Marshall, Budworth, Bawden, Retchless, Toshack, Purdham.
Castleford: Lennon, Pryce, Johnson, Eagar, Rogers, Orr, Healey,
Sykes, Bartrim, Lynch, Warren, Fritz, Harland. Referee: Richard Silverwood (Dewsbury)
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