Saint’s virtually secured promotion back to division one with a well deserved win over rivals Lock Lane, the ‘Lane’ had to readjust the back line when Steve Balderson was injured in the pre-match warm up.

The visitors had three successive penalties early on and pushed Saint’s back and when Danny Rowse elected to go for goal he saw the ball drift wide of the posts.

Saint’s opened the scoring on 13 minutes when Dave Harris broke down the left side only to be pulled up short of the line, but man-of-the-match Danny Kay scuppered over from dummy-half with Kiel Lancashire’s conversion hitting the upright and bouncing out.

The ‘Lane’ had Craig Duncan, Tim Wood and Rowse working tirelessly but they couldn’t withstand the pressure from Kay, Harris and Martin Ryan.

Ryan went in for Saint’s second score on twenty minutes after good work from scrum half Jordan White, with Lancashire adding the goal.

The ‘Lane’ mounted another attack down the left but the final pass to Wood’s was adjudged forward with a three man overlap and from the resultant scrum, a break from loose Danny Chrimes who off-loaded to Lee Forsythe produce the try of the match with a seventy run to the line, on the half hour the divisions leading try scorer Harris rounded three defenders to score with Lancashire landing both conversions.

Just before the break, full back Craig Duncan opened the visitors scoring with a try at the side of the posts for Rowse to add the extras.

After the break the Castleford side reduced the arrears when stand-off Scott Horner crossed for an un-converted try, and from then on the home side had to dig deep.

On the hour, Harris completed the scoring when outpacing the visitors defence to score and wrap the game up.

With ten minutes remaining, the ‘Lane’ were reduced to twelve men when Rowse was dispatched to the sin bin for protesting a decision too profoundly.

With Stanley winning at Ovenden, it is possible they could claim second spot if they can overcome Lock Lane and Crosfields in their last two outings –both away-, but they would have to overcome a large points difference