WINDERMERE welcomed back Keswick to Dawes Meadow last Saturday to determine who would go through to the third round of the Powergen Junior Vase.

When the sides met in the league Keswick only edged a 5-3 victory, but the visitors were the stronger side on the day and achieved a decisive win.

Keswick started well, putting the home side under pressure form the start. But when they conceded a penalty, Windermere kicked for good field position and the forwards drove on well, Jason Brown linking with Danny Blenkharn, who found Shaun Stafford to charge over for a try, which Jonathan Cooper converted.

Keswick came back and played some good rugby, but good defending kept them out. Finally, the breakthrough came when Keswick broke downfield from a scrum for Wallace to score.

Keswick went straight back on the attack, putting in Dunn to score a second try and they began to look in charge when a third followed as Hine beat three of the home side's backs to go under the posts and then step up to add the conversion.

After Windermere gave away a penalty for handling on the ground, Hine put over the kick to give his side a 20-7 lead at half time.

For the first ten minutes of the second half it was fairly even contest, but crucially Keswick scored again, putting up a high ball for one of the wingers, who was favoured by the bounce to collect and fed Lake to make the touch down.

Windermere's woes increased when they lost the ball as they pressed forward, Leanord picking up and running threequarters of the length of the field to score, Hine converting.

Leanord benefited again from another mistake to cross the tryline line again after the home side spilled the ball in the loose, In the last ten minutes it was all about Windermere they started to play an open, running game.

This took them back into the Keswick half and Jamie Hardman broke the defence, and he held up the ball well for Ben Malcolm to arrive in support and feed Richard Rigg to go over just left of the posts, Mike Crawford converting what proved to be a consolation effort.