Trio of west Cumbrian clubs through to next round of the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup

Wath Brow, Kells and Distington will all be involved in the second round draw on Wednesday night from the Halliwell Jones Stadium, Warrington. The BBC Sport website will stream the draw live from 5pm.

For their trip to Hunslet Warriors, Wath Brow Hornets took an opportunity to blood six of their Under-19 players but they came away with a 30-0 victory.

The Brow were under the cosh for the first 12 minutes, defending five sets before they got their hands on the ball.

From this point, the Cumbrians started to take control of the ball and the game, with the first score coming on 14 minutes.

Following some strong forward play by Richard Huby and Conner Molyenux, a fast-flowing move was finished off by Matt Sibbald with the conversion by Samuel Curwen.

The Brow forwards were too strong and were pushing the Warriors up the hill at every opportunity.

The next try came off one of these breaks, orchestrated by man-of-the-match Dean Rooney, and ended with Curtis Teare linking-up from full-back to dive in out wide. Again Curwen converted.

Warriors’ discipline was going to be their downfall and, with ten minutes left in the half, Curwen converted a penalty to send the Brow in with a 14-0 lead

The second half saw the Brow playing down the hill and the pack was well on top with youngsters Power, Eldon, Bradley and Gregg Dawson, who was back after a long-term injury, stepping-up and fitting-in well. They had a hand in Teare scoring his second try.

Again, ill-discipline by the Warriors allowing Brow to camp in their half.

Even when they managed to get out a knock-on, that allowed Peter Caddy to pick up the loose ball and sprint 60 metres to get over the whitewash. Curwen converted.

The final score of the game with minutes left saw Rooney cap-off a good game by making space for himself to dive in under the posts and Curwen converted.

Kells were too strong for British Police and were 40-8 winners in a tie which they virtually had sewn-up by half-time when they enjoyed a 28-4 lead.

It took them only two minutes to get on the scoresheet when Troy Armstrong went over for the opening try and, five minutes later, Craig Benson had followed him over. This time, Ross Gainford added the conversion.

The Police might have been wishing they were back on the beat because after nine minutes it was 14-0 as Scott Lofthouse charged over for an unconverted try.

At least they started to stem the flow for Kells did not score again for another 12 minutes when Grant Gainford and Ross Gainford added the extras.

Tyrone Dalton and Paul Culnean then added unconverted tries before the police got some reward when Phil Macey scored an unconverted try two minutes before the break.

It was a better effort from the police in the second half and they actually scored the first try following the break when Gaz Jones made the line.

In fact, it stayed at 28-8 until the last eight minutes when Kells scored tries by Grant Gainford and Dalton, both of which were converted by Ross Gainford.

Hensingham were probably unlucky to come up against a University of Hull side who are right in the middle of their winter season – fit and in form.

Short of match practice, Hensingham paid the price as they went under 24-10, scoring all their points in the first half.

The Cumbrians were 10-0 down inside 15 minutes as Kyle Saunders and Sam Wilkinson-Pycock scored tries for the home side, the first converted by Patrick Johnson.

Hensingham were given hope by an unconverted try from Finn Barwise on 23 minutes but two tries inside three minutes just before the half-hour mark put the students back in charge.

Andy Harris and Nathan Hill both crossed the Hensingham line with Johnson converting one.

Josh Rogerson revived Hensingham with a try on 36 minutes which was converted by Dean Laverick.

The only score in a tight, hard-fought second half was an unconverted try by the university’s Jacob Phillips.

There was another hard-fought tie at Distington where the home side triumphed 32-24 against Queens from the Pennine League.

That represented quite a turnaround as, at half-time, Distington were trailing 18-8.

But Queens had influential hooker Charlie Hughes sent off after 18 minutes for fighting and the handicap of playing with just 12 men proved too much in the second half.

The visitors got off to a flying start with two tries in the first ten minutes as Charlie Hughes and Brodie Pitts touched down. Aaron Henry converted one.

Greg Bedford appeared to have got Distington back into the game with an unconverted try on 27 minutes after Hughes had been red-carded but Queens hit back again with a try and conversion from Henry.

A penalty from Henry on 38 minutes seemed to have put Queens in command but Distington were given a late lifeline when Bedford went over for his second try.

It certainly lifted the villagers and, within ten minutes of the restart, they had gone in front. Gavin Martin and Jamie Friel scored tries and Clayton Sutton added the conversions.

When Queens started to lose their discipline, three penalties were banged over by Sutton for a 26-18 lead on 66 minutes.

Queens were game, however, and on 73 minutes, they were still in the contest as Kieran Hudson’s try, converted by Henry pulled them back to within two points.

But, five minutes from time, Bedford sealed the win with his hat-trick try and Sutton added the conversion.