Bramley 6 Leigh 38 By MIKE HULME LEIGH tuned up for next Sunday's crucial Challenge Cup showdown with Hull KR with a runaway win over mid-table Bramley.

Leigh could hardly have wished for a better build-up to the Craven Park crunch next week with a seven-try spree against a side that had stolen a 20-14 win at Hilton Park earlier in the season.

This was Leigh's 10th win in succession and their most comprehensive away from home.

"I'm more than satisfied with our form going into next week's tie," said coach Ian Lucas, whose side had already clinched runners-up spot in Division Two.

"Confidence is sky high with ten straight wins under our belt and we'll go to Rovers and give it our best shot."

Lucas was quick to point out that it had been Leigh's all round supremacy that had seen them through, rather than flashes of individual brilliance.

"It was a solid team effort, one of our best of the season," he said. "We defended well when we had to and attacked with purpose when we had the chance."

Leigh were a try up inside two minutes when Chris Wilkinson's high diagonal kick was taken on the full by winger Andy Cheetham who dived in for his 14th try of the season.

But it took Leigh the better part of the rest of the first half to effectively make the game safe.

A Wilkinson penalty seven minutes before the break made it 6-0 and just before the interval Wilkinson cleverly made the space for the outstanding Paul Daniel to go clear and send sub Ged Stazicker bursting over for a six pointer.

A minute into the second half winger Barry Burgess made 70 metres up the middle and Stazicker touched down under the posts for Wilkinson to make it 18-0.

Soon afterwards Cheetham's break set up the position for Wilkinson to chip to the corner and Burgess win the race for the touch down.

Leigh's domination was only broken once when Bramley skipper Dean Blankley went in through a static defence for a try improved by Dean Creasser.

But there was no holding rampant Leigh who finished with another three tries.

Young right wing pair Alan Hadcroft and Burgess combined sweetly to send in David Ingram; Alex Cain, Wilkinson and Hadcroft did the damage to lay on Ingram's second and right on time Wilkinson and David Hill carved out the chance for Jason O'Loughlin to go under the posts and give Wilkinson his fifth goal.

Leigh: O'Loughlin, Burgess, Hadcroft, Veikoso, Cheetham, Ingram, Wilkinson, Liku, Bannister, Cain (Stazicker 29), Daniel, Perigo, Hill (Davies 32).

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