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Article: Sorry Lakers suffer 13-try rout.
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- Pontefract & Castleford Express (Castleford, England)
- Article date:
- April 14, 2007
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Doncaster Dragons 4
Castleford Tigers 66
THE Tigers dished up a 13-try annihilation of hapless Lakers in an embarrassingly one-sided National League One mis-match.
Doncaster had already been blown away in a pre-season friendly and two Northern Rail Cup matches.
But Tigers boss Terry Matterson was expecting a stiffer test of his side's championship credentials this time round and the Lakers, with home advantage, buoyed by a opening day victory at Sheffield and with key figures Joel Penny and Ryan Tandy set to face Cas for the first time, could not have anticipated such a drubbing.
The gulf in class was evident from the early stages of this televised ...