Malton and Norton's poor run of results came to an end as they beat Redcar 36-10 in North Two East.

Malton showed some of the fine rugby they played earlier in the season, with man of the match Ian Cooke, Craig Foote, David Cooke, Liam Vaughan, Jon Newsome and Andy Mitchell to the fore.

For the first ten minutes, Malt were under pressure and penned in their own 22.

However, the pressure was more than relieved when skipper Chris Creber hoisted the ball high for winger Ian Cooke to take a superb catch before making good ground and feeding centre David Webster, who crossed beneath the posts.

Malton quickly added to the tally when the ball was spread wide before being brought back inside for Ian Cooke to feed back-row Foote, who stormed over.

At this stage, with Ian Cooke in superb form, Malton looked like world-beaters. A period of sustained pressure ensued and when the ball went to the backs, centre Alan Aitken made a defence-splitting break before handing on to prop Vaughan to cross.

Cooke added his third conversion to put his side 21 points up after 20 minutes. And more followed as a good catch and drive from a lineout rewarded hooker Steve Piercy with a try and then prop Carl Muscroft forced his way over after good work from scrum-half Newsome.

Malton thus led 31-0 at the break but Redcar, with a much better second half display showed why they had taken Alnwick apart last week.

For the first 20 minutes Malton were under pressure and, while resolute defence kept the visitors at bay for much of the time, Redcar did find a gap and winger Storey crossed, followed immediately by a try for fly-half Hemmingway in the corner.

However, Malton again got back into their stride and good pressure led to a series of lineouts on the Redcar line.

Good forward play, controlled by Newsome, brought reward to flanker Mitchell, who scored the try to settle the match.

Updated: 11:19 Monday, January 31, 2005