OLDHAM MADE TO WORK FOR WIN
IAN WILSON Boundary Park, Sunday
OLDHAM 24 SHEFFIELD EAGLES 12
OLDHAM held out to claim a tenth league win from what was very much a game of two halves.
It might have been thought the home team would have little difficulty in accounting for a struggling Sheffield side seeking to avoid a twelfth defeat of what is turning out to be a pretty dismal season for them.
And at half-time, with the score 20-4, the expectation appeared to be being fulfilled. But the second period was a different story altogether.
Two scores without reply for the visitors during the third quarter, together with a mountain of both possession and field position, left Oldham desperately hanging on.