THE Dalesmen were able to fashion an Aire-Wharfe Cup Final victory from the jaws of defeat.
KEIGHLEY took advantage of an error strewn, penalty infected first half display from an Ilkley side who just couldn’t get their game into gear.
IT was day for drama, as a whole host of Heath supporters gathered at Stacks Field on Saturday hoping that Driffield would put one over on Harrogate and that their side could clinch a five-point victory and with it the league championship.
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A trip to Clifton Park was always going to be a tough task for Ilkley and so it proved, as league leaders York inflicted a 25-5 defeat on the visitors on Saturday.
Despite eight enforced changes to the Ilkley team and their recent bad defeats to basement clubs Sandal and Scunthorpe, they hit back to thrash Pontefract.
ILKLEY secured consecutive victories with a gritty display at Doncaster Phoenix on Saturday, as the visitors eventually ran out 18-10 winners.
THE long trip to North Newcastle was singularly unrewarding for the Ilkley team and the supporters who had made the journey, as they fell to a confidence-knocking 50-17 defeat.
LATE heartbreak saw Ilkley suffer a narrow 21-20 defeat at home to one of the inform sides in the division on Saturday.
