Peterlee Pumas overcame a tough Jarrow Vikings team to go fourteen games undefeated although it did take 30 minutes for the first points to be scored.  Both teams understood the importance of this game as the two sides play again next week in the leagues grand final and neither Pumas or Vikings wished to concede first.  However, Jarrow got the unwanted privilege when Peterlee received a penalty which Andrew Rollins drove in.  A quick shift to the right wing found fullback Scott Jordan who dove over in the corner.  Pall Moss missed the following conversion from a difficult angle.  Jarrow received a penalty from the referee and they elected to kick.  John Coutts hit the post and the ball bounced back into the field of play but Jarrow could not follow up as the half time score stood at 4 – 0.

Jarrow kept the pressure they had going into the end of the first half by scoring a quick try in the first few minutes of the second.  Andy Gray dove over just right of the posts and John Coutts converted for Jarrow to take the lead.  In what was arguably the try of the game fullback Scott Jordan showed the crowd his amazing footwork, speed and strength to run in a try from his own 20 metre line.  He weaved through six Jarrow players to touchdown on the right hand side.  Moss converted  as Peterlee regained to advantage.  Another penalty for Peterlee found Stuart Houghton go over the line despite having two defenders trying to stop him.  Luke Watson, who is currently captain for the amateur England side, scored for Peterlee next in a bizarre fashion.  Watson tried to chip kick the Jarrow defence but it was charged down.  He reacted first by collecting the ball and slipping through a confused defence to score. Moss kicked the extra two points.  Mark Watson, older brother of Luke, drove a ball in next and was tackled inches short of the try line.  However, a quick play of the ball while Jarrow were still trying to organise their defence was pushed out to wing James Daniels to go over in the corner.  The angle was too acute for Moss to convert.  Jarrow came back at Peterlee and scored through Ian Arkley as Peterlee tried in vain to keep the away team off their try line.  The conversion was missed.  A great set play from Peterlee set up the next and final try as kicker Paul Moss got the ball from a scrum.  An accurate kick into the Jarrow try zone let fullback Scott Jordan run onto it to touch the ball down and score his hat trick.  Moss converted with the final kick to make the full time score 30 - 10.

Sunderland opened the scoring with a shift wide to the left wing and ran under the posts, 6 0 to Sunderland. 17 year old hooker got the pumas straight back into it with a scoot from dummy half and under the posts, moss converted 6 all. John Percival crossed over on the left. After a shift wide left, moss added the 2. 12 6. A penalty by the visitors gave Peterlee position thirty meters out, prop mark Watson ran in moss added the 2 18 6. A scrum deep in the pumas half saw Adam hoard at centre break off load to scot Jordan who ran the length of the field and scored under the posts. 24 6. Sunderland got a try back controversially after a lifting in the tackle incident. The conversion was missed 24 10.  Houghton got his 2nd after Jordan and Rollins ran a Sunderland kick back the length of the field and got on the end of the move to score under the posts, another 2 from moss, 30 10..  Luke Watson broke on half way and ran under the posts unopposed but dropped the ball over the line Carl brown cut an inside line passed from Houghton to score next for Peterlee, another 2 from moss made it 36 10. Jordan ran in the Sunderland kick off from his 20 again converted 42 10. Another 17 year old puma Zac Mcluskey broke on the right to score next, 48 10 to Peterlee at ht after moss converted.

Adam hoard opened the scoring in the 2nd half 52 10..  Howard broke from a scrum, on halfway and ran in to the right  corner. 56 10.  Sunderland chipped ahead out wide and scored on the right despite the pumas chase, 56 16 after the difficult conversion.  Stephen Stockdale replied next moss converted  62 16.  Colin watson scored next running the ball in from the Sunderland kick off 66 16.  Stockdale crossed again to make it 72 16 after the moss conversion. Luke Watson took a pass behind him at speed on half way and scored, moss converted,  78 16. Peterlee forced an error from Sunderland in their own half and. Moss broke, offloaded to hoard who scored, 84 16.  Peterlee knocked on from a scrum and Sunderland poured through to score, 84 22 after the conversion a chip kick on the 1st tackle from prop McLaren was caught by full back Jordan who scored, moss converted, 90 22