NEW Earswick All Blacks sent out a message of intent to the rest of the Pennine League championship as they demolished Odsal Sedbergh 42-10 at White Rose Avenue.

The game began with head coach Jack Stearman's men under pressure as Odsal had five sets of six within the home side's final third. But, on the third tackle of the sixth set and after an Odsal player was deemed to have been held up, the referee allowed a play the ball on the try line for the visitors' hooker to dive over.

Trailing 4-0 after 14 minutes, New Earswick were only behind until a quarter of the game had passed.

A well placed Liam Gargan kick to the left was taken in by winger Sam Cooper to get the All Blacks rolling and Tom Holmes kicked the first goal of what would be a profitable day as All Blacks edged 6-4 in front.

They were soon over again - Holmes hitting a gap to go under the sticks before converting his own try. When Karl Southerington was gifted a walk in - after good hands got him over in the right corner - New Earswick had turned the game on its head and led 16-4 at half-time.

But Odsal were back in the game on the restart, using good possession to move down the left side as their prop dived over. The conversion reduced the deficit to 16-10.

The revival was short lived as All Blacks quickly found their form.

Ten minutes into the second half, Jack Law took a seemingly impossible pass - catching the ball behind his back - and hit the space between the opposing centre and winger to open his account for the season. Holmes missed with the boot but it was now 20-10.

Jamie Knocker was next over after receiving the short ball option and taking two Odsal defenders over the line with him and, four minutes later, Holmes got over for his second when exploiting the tiring Odsal defence to walk in for an easy score.

His conversion took the tally to 30-10 with 12 minutes left.

Still New Earswick wanted more.

With eight minutes left on the clock, Gargan used great feet to dribble the ball through the Odsal defence and collect it on the other side - touching down under the posts - and Holmes sealed his hat-trick on full-time when running the ball from dummy half and leaving the visiting defence watching as he dived over.

His successful conversion, on the full-time whistle, finished the scoring.

The victory came at a cost with Matt Canon facing a couple of months on the sidelines after dislocating his elbow and breaking his thumb in two places, while skipper Adam Kirby tore the end off a finger.

Stearman said of the win: "We stuck to the game plan and our objective today was to not concede more than 16 points today.

"We know that we can score big points when we get in the mood however, in recent outings, our defence has let us down. It’s something we can work on going forward but I am happy with the result and the professionalism shown by our lads.”

All Blacks next visit Batley Boys.