Betfred League One

North Wales Crusaders 4 York City Knights 31

North Wales: T Johnson, Knox, Hurst, Trumper, Bloomfield, Lyons, Smith, Walker, Dandy, Bate, Houghton, Atherton, Baker. Subs (all used): Hudson, Brennan, Tahraoui, Hulme.

Tries: Bloomfield 73.

Conversions: none (T Johnson 0/1).

Penalties: none.

Sent off: none.

Sin-binned: none.

Knights: Dagger 6, Oakes 8, Batchelor 7, Hey 7, Robson 6, Cockayne 7, C Robinson 8, A Robinson 6, Ellis 7, Hawksworth 7, Walne 7, Scott 8, Spears 8. Subs (all used): Carter 7, Horne 8, Johnson 6, Porter 8.

Tries: Robson 16; Oakes 35; Cockayne 55; Hawksworth 61; Ellis 65.

Conversions: C Robinson 35, 55, 61, 65 (4/5).

Penalties: C Robinson 30 (1/1).

Drop goal: C Robinson 40.

Sent off: none.

Sin-binned: none.

Man of the match: Will Oakes - the big stocky youngster from Hull KR didn't get much chance to show his pace out wide on this narrow Queensway pitch but he did display his ability to help out his forward pack with some bruising, forceful, metre-making runs out of defence.

Referee: Michael Mannifield (Huddersfield) – pretty good.

Penalty count: 6-10

Half-time: 0-13

Weather: overcast.

Attendance: 408

Moment of the match: a York attack on the last tackle appeared to have broken down but Connor Robinson, in bending down to clean up the loose ball, audaciously fired an inch-perfect pass between his legs to the men in space behind him. The Knights had an overlap and winger Will Oakes duly touched down. Coach James Ford might not necessarily want his team to try to emulate the Harlem Globetrotters, but when it pays off like that, who can complain?

Gaffe of the match: A couple of kicks were dropped and Josh Johnson forfeited an attacking platform when fouling at the play-the-ball, but none of these mistakes proved costly.

Gamebreaker: The first half wore down the hosts and it showed on the scoreboard when the Knights scored three tries in the space of 10 second-half minutes around the hour mark to seal the spoils.

Match rating: this was nothing like the thrillers between these two teams in recent years as York this time ground down their hosts and ultimately overran them to win comfortably on the scoreboard, 31-4. It wasn't spectacular but it was a mature and professional performance full of hard toil.