Hunslet Hawks join York Knights in Northern Rail Cup quarter-final draw (From York Press)

Hunslet Hawks join York Knights in Northern Rail Cup quarter-final draw

10:10am Monday 22nd March 2010 in

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HUNSLET joined York City Knights as the second Championship One club to reach the last eight of the Northern Rail Cup after a shock win over Championship big-guns Halifax.

The draw for the quarter-finals will be held on Wednesday night and the Knights’ arch-rivals, now bossed by sacked York player-coach Paul March, became the last club to make the hat by winning 42-36 in a thriller at The Shay – a victory which augurs well for their Championship One title bid.

Fit-again Richard Knight, one of many ex-Knights now in the Hunslet squad, scored a try and four goals, and another, Neil Lowe, also bagged one of the Hawks’ seven tries.

Another, Darren Robinson, also kicked a goal as March’s men triumphed at the death despite the sending-off of hooker Richard Chapman and an earlier sin-binning of Nathan Larvin.

Fax coach Matt Calland lambasted his team’s display, as the Hawks climbed above his club into the top four in Pool Two, effectively knocking them out of the competition.