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BBC News
2 days ago
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York pip Featherstone in extra time to win 1895 Cup
1895 Cup final, Wembley StadiumFeatherstone (2) 4Goals: Reynolds 2York (4) 5Goals: Harris 2 Drop-goal: HarrisMatch ended 4-4 after 80 minutes York Knights lifted the 1895 Cup for the first time as they edged Championship rivals Featherstone Rovers in golden-point extra time at Harris slotted a 35-metre drop-goal in the fifth minute of added time to spark celebrations after a tryless 80 minutes had ended level at aiming to become the first side to win the 1895 Cup for a second time by following-up their win in 2021 against York, started well and hit the front with a 12th-minute penalty from scrum-half Ben as errors crept into Rovers' game, York took control of a physical first half, levelling through the boot of Harris before the scrum-half kicked a long-range second penalty as the hooter blew for half-time. Harris was stopped just short as York restarted well, but Featherstone responded, with Clay Webb denied by Toa Mata'afa's try-saving tackle before Reynolds' second penalty levelled the scores on the back-row Oli Field was brought down a few metres short of the line and Featherstone wasted a late drop-goal opportunity as nerves and fatigue sides missed drop-goal attempts in extra time through Harris and Ryan Hampshire, before the former found the target to clinch a tense Aekins, Olpherts, Hardcastle, Gale, Wynne, Reynolds, Hampshire, Springer, Jubb, Beckett, Day, Webb, Jones, Williams, Vuniyayawa, Mata'afa, Brown, Buchanan, Field, Galeano, Hingano, Harris, Martin, McShane, Ta'ai, Dee, Bailey, Cook, Santi, Gannon, Liam Rush.
BBC News
5 days ago
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Harris backs Knights to put on a show at Wembley
Winger Liam Harris said York Knights can show they are "a Super League side in the making" with victory in the 1895 Cup at Wembley Stadium on Saturday (17:45 BST).The North Yorkshire outfit will battle it out with fellow Championship side Featherstone Rovers for the second- and third-tier knockout trophy after the Challenge Cup final between Warrington Wolves and Hull while Harris expects that plenty of fans will not stay to watch the aftershow to the main event, he said they should if they want to see a top-flight side of the future."Outside looking in, people probably turn their nose up at this competition," Harris told BBC Radio York."It is played after the [main] game and all the fans have left and all that sort of stuff, but to us, looking at it internally, it is the only knockout competition we can win so to us it's everything."That is what is on offer and we'll go for it. If and when we get the job done on the weekend it is a fair step in a positive direction for the club, and that's very important to us as well."I believe York is a Super League club in the making and it's only a matter of time [before we become one]."York Knights have spent the last six and a half seasons in the second-tier Championship, finishing fourth, sixth and sixth in the past three currently sit in fourth place in the table, four places and four points ahead of Saturday's opponents Featherstone Rovers, who are eighth.
