HIGH-FLYING EAGLES SILENCE THUNDER
SHEFFIELD EAGLES 34
NEWCASTLE THUNDER 20
LEWIS COLEMAN
Millennium Stadium, Friday
SHEFFIELD EAGLES produced a clinical first-half performance which proved too much for Newcastle Thunder, whose comeback in the second half came up short.
The Eagles welcomed back Tom Holmes to their squad following his return to the club on loan from Featherstone. Kadeem Williams made his Sheffield debut from the bench.
Newcastle came into the contest off the back of a defeat at York City Knights last time out. The visitors started the more promising and forced a Sheffield error in the first set of the game. Thunder made use of a slow start from the Eagles and registered the first points of the game after seven minutes.