HARROGATE'S poor run in National 2 continued when they went down 25-18 at home to Stourbridge.

But it was a much-improved display by the Claro Road men who dominated the first half and were rewarded with a try by Aspinall who also fired over a long range drop goal.

However, Stourbridge kept in the game with a couple of penalties and took advanatge of Matt Challinor's ten minutes in the sin-bin for stamping. They ran in a couple of tries through Price of Piotrowski in this period and after a Mark Chester penalty, the visitors scored another try through Marcus Cook.

Harrogate kept battling but a converted Challinor try was their only reward.

Updated: 10:08 Monday, November 28, 2005