Leigh Centurions 52 Chorley Lynx 18
THE Centurions duly wrapped up the Northern Ford Premiership Minor Premiership with four games to spare and collected their first piece of silverware for 11 years writes Mike Hulme
But Leigh know that the end product was better than the whole. Head coach Paul Terzis chose to rest several of his front-line stars - and it showed as Leigh misfired quite badly against one of the division's whipping boys.
"We didn't play well," Terzis conceded. "I think the majority of us, and myself included, had one eye on the Trans-Pennine Final at Keighley on Wednesday.
"But at the end of the day we've brought some silverware back to Hilton Park and that's what will go down in the record books, not how well or otherwise we played.
Leigh were also disappointed that they fell five points short of passing the 1000 league points in a season total.
"We would have liked to have wrapped that up as well, but we wasted far too many opportunities. We'll just have to wait a week or two to pass the thousand."
Leigh were able to canter through the game and still pick up nine tries from eight different players while teenage scrum-half Lee Sanderson knocked over eight goals from nine shots.
Leigh: Turley; Hadcroft, Fairclough, Kendrick, Jones; Bretherton, Sanderson; Norman, Duffy, Bradbury, Bristow, Morley, Swann. Subs: Street, Hamilton, Johnson, Whittle. Att: 2639.
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