It's always a tough place to come to, and we always expect a hard physical battle in the pack. We managed the game well in the first half and came out of the blocks straight after the break, but we couldn't see it through

- Ian Boden - Head Coach

Crosfields came away with a credible performance but a gut wrenching result as the victory was snatched away from them right at the death.

The team can take heart from the performance and build in confidence but it still smarts to lose in that manner. All credit to the home team though as they continued to seek their opening win right up until the final play.

The game started as a cagey affair with both teams having solid sets, with East Leeds having the better of the territory. It was Soap however who got the opening score following a John Whittaker break. Great ball handling through the team saw young Scott Turton put Dan Reid in for a try that his name sake Jack converted for a 6-0 lead after 10 minutes. That lead was extended half way through a tight first half by Jack Reid following a penalty for holding down.

Soap allowed the home team back in to the game with ten minutes to go until the break with a penalty for holding down themselves to which East Leeds took full advantage of. The East Leeds hooker brushed away a number of would be tacklers to score and narrow the gap to four points.

East Leeds continued this momentum up to the break as they applied huge pressure on the Soap line. So much so that a knock on right on the line gifted the Yorkshire men a try on the stroke of half time from the resulting scrum.

The home team went in at half time 2 points to the good.

Soap came out in the second half fired up and pushed East Leeds hard early on. Jack Lewis's kick on the last forced East Leeds to knock the ball in to touch and the in-form Luke Walker profited from the scrum ghosting through centre and wing for a great try to nose Soap in to the lead once again.

The lead was short lived however as the home team drove the ball well up the middle before shifting the ball wide to the winger who crossed in the corner to reclaim a 4 point advantage on 47 minutes. Soap thought they'd squared the game up ten minutes later but the try was ruled out for obstruction on what seemed a perfectly reasonable set move.

The lead was wrestled back though 5 minutes later as great Soap defence forced a knock on on the half way line. The ball was fed to full back Jack Lewis who scythed through the defence to raced 50 metres and score under the sticks to edge the visitor 2 ahead with 20 minutes to play.

In a tense final quarter of the game both sides traded penalties. 1st East Leeds drew level at 18 all, then consecutive penalty successes from Jack Reid look to have wrapped the game up at 22-18 in the 79th minute until the final bitter blow was struck to the delight of the home crowd in the 80th minute as the East Leeds number 8 crashed over. Hayden James picked up his 1st man of the match of the season award.

In better news the Alliance team registered a 24-20 win at home to Wigan Bulldogs with a brace of tries from Taylor Boyne, Jack Williams and Joe Battensby also crossed with Brad Stanway adding 4 conversions. Alex Charnock took the MoM

Next week sees the Soap host Hull Dockers at the Webb Security Rec and our A team travel to St. Helens to take on Thatto Heath A both 2:30pm kick offs