York RI suffered heartbreak in the Tetley's Bitter Vase third round as they were beaten 12-10 in injury-time at home to Stocksbridge.

The Sheffield side had a huge pack and made the most of their weight advantage to take the lead in the first half with a try by prop Wayne Cherry.

Matthew Yates reduced the deficit with a penalty before half-time.

RI looked to be on their way into the next round when Brett Dunnage scored a try five minutes before full-time and Yates converted to put the York side 10-5 up.

But Stocksbridge camped on the RI line in the closing stages and, after York were penalised for a foot up in the scrum, the visitors capitalised to score the winning try.

Many rugby union pitches were in surprisingly good shape considering the heavy soaking they had received last week.

But it took more than floods to curtail the Saturday afternoon romps of Nestl Rowntree, who defied flooded roads round the Selby area to take on Selby's fourth string at Sandhill Lane.

The York side skirted the floods via Sherburn-in-Elmet to reach their destination and were rewarded for their efforts with what for them was a rare win.

They beat Selby IV 34-29 despite being two men short as their Army lads were involved in flood barrier work around the York area.

But 'Trees could not believe their luck when they were 24-7 ahead at half time and took their eye off the ball, only to see a brilliant fight back from the Selby side who brought the score back to 24-24 before Jim Baldwin complete his match winning hat trick of tries that helped to clinch an exciting victory.

Other tries were touched down by 'Trees' No. 8 Jim Bell and centre Pete Shores. Dave Sowray kicked three conversions and a penalty goal, while Selby scored three goals, an unconverted try and a penalty.

Ripon were well beaten 34-12 by their visitors, Redcar, in the Intermediate Cup third round.

Four penalties from Fred Oakes was Ripon's only response to Redcar tries through replacement scrum half Ian Fawcett (2), full back Gareth Foreman, half back Paul Evans and prop Charlie Chandler, Garry Schofield landing the goals.

In the Intermediate Cup Goole travelled to Wheatley Hills (Doncaster) for their 27-19 win, scoring tries through scrum half James Hawkesworth, left winger Dave Woodall and fly half James Ruhmann who also kicked a drop goal and three penalty goals.

The South Yorkshiremen replied with tries through Andy Wilson, Dave Hickman and were awarded a penalty try, Mark Hardcastle adding two conversions.

In a delayed Yorkshire Two league game Scarborough punished Roundhegians 31-0 at Newby with tries through their Old Johnsman No. 8 Ken Proctor, prop Jamie Drayton, centre Rob Bell and left winger, Ian Warwick, Marcus Edwards converting all four and adding a penalty goal.

The waterlogged state of Whitby's ground caused the cancellation of their scheduled game against Winlaton, and the rain further delayed York's league game at Darlington.

Pocklington and Selby did not fill gaps on their fixture lists.

However, Pocklington Panthers were at home to Hullensians first team.

Percy Road's firm surface was ideal for Rugby but a scrappy encounter ensued with Pocklington just managing to scrape home by 12-11.

Defences were on top throughout the first half with the only score coming from a Hullensians penalty on the half hour.

Pocklington livened up somewhat after the break but another penalty goal increased the Hullensians lead.

A sustained spell of pressure from the Panthers then saw them go close on half a dozen occasions before a quick tap penalty was swung wide and wing Jon Traill squeezed in at the corner with a good dive for the line.

Pocklington enjoyed their best period and centre John Oxley broke clear down the right. He pulled a hamstring with the line insight, but still managed to get the ball away to Traill and the wing ran round to the posts for Roger Mann to convert.

Hullensians tried hard to save the game and a line-out catch and drive brought them a try in the closing minutes.

But the conversion went wide and Panthers held on to win.