A number of new faces, alongside some instantly recognisable ones were on show for the home crowd in a side that has got off to a promising start under new coach Andy Smith.

As he mentions in a posting shortly after the game “Efforts today, like the chase back from Roslind Lloyd in the first 5 minutes of the game, and our goal line defence towards the back end of the first half is the reason our points against stands at only 6 points”.

That 'effort' by Ros in the first five minutes was a brilliant piece of defending. The opposition forward had escaped the tackles of a number of Eagle's players and was though on their left wing to score a certain try. Then came Ros, who made a tremendous run to catch the player and bring her down to save the try. From then on, the Eagle's were the dominant side.

Some well worked tries followed from Ellena Powell, Tiffany Turner, Roslind Lloyd, Courtney Petruska, Chelsea-Leigh Hall and captain Kirsty Mills. Jackie Sedgwick converted two of those tries.

MOM - Kirsty Mills & Roslind Marie Lloyd
Coaches MOM - Jacqueline Sedgwick
The Players Player of the match was unavailable at time of writing.
Tiffany Turner is the leading try scorer with four, and Hannah Carty is the leading points scorer with sixteen.
Scorers:
Ellena Powell (1 try), Tiffany Turner (3 tries), Roslind Marie Lloyd (2 tries), Kirsty Mills (1 try), Courtney Petruska (1 try) and Chelsea-leigh Hall (1 try). Jacqueline Sedgwick (two conversions.
Top tackler - Kirsty Mills (16)
Set completion - 13/19 completed sets (68.5%)
The Eagle's lined up as follows:
FB - 1 - Ellena Powell
W - 2 - Kirsty King
C - 3 - Hannah Carty (VC)
C - 4 - Roslind Lloyd
W - 5 - Tiffany Turner
SO - 6 - Lucy Butterfield
SH - 7 - Sarah Barford
P - 8 - Kirsty Mills (C)
H - 9 - Courtney Petruska
P - 10 - Claire Tennant
SR - 11 - Chelsea Hall
SR - 12 - Jaqueline Sedgwick
L - 13 - Brogan Townsley-Parker
Sub - 14 - Crystal Hearsum
Sub - 15 - Holly James
Sub - 16 - Kim Clowes
Finally, may we take this opportunity of wishing Tiffany Turner a very happy birthday today.
The open age women's remaining fixtures for 2018 are:
18 November. versus Featherstone Lionesses (away),
25 November. Versus Dewsbury Moor (home)
2 December. Versus Liverpool University, cup (home)
9 December. Versus Thornhill Trojans (away
16 December. Versus Keighley Albion (home).
With thanks to coach, Andy Smith, and Sarah-Louise Barford (statistics) in compiling this report.