Dewsbury have mostly done well on their travels this year, but while always keeping it tight, never led in, what for nearly 70 minutes was a you score, we score scenario.

The most significant latest loanee in the Panthers dressing room was 19-year old Will Brough, son of legendary halfback Danny, playing his second game for Halifax at fullback but this time on a season’s switch from Leigh.

An even first half ended 4-4 with neither side truly in the ascendancy. The third quarter injected more life and purpose with scores happening regularly.

Myles Lawford’s looping pass enables Ben Tibbs to open the scoring with a simple touchdown on the right wing.

Halifax’s on-loan Wakefield halfback missed the tricky touchline conversion but still finished with  five goals from six attempts.

The Rams responded midway through the half when George Senior barged through a tackle to score on the left, but Jacob Hookem had no more luck with the conversion from out wide than Lawford.

Alfie Johnson (pictured above) felt he had crossed on the Halifax left but his try claim was ruled out for a forward pass.

Will Calcott was held up under the posts and one more scrambled effort was repelled by some desperate Dewsbury scrambling goal-line defence.

Halifax’s period of pressure eventually ended when Jacob Fairbank was deemed to have gone in high but, despite one moment following a Brough fumble of a high kick, a succession of minor errors at the other end gave the hosts back the momentum as half-time approached.

Within three minutes of the start of the second period, Johnson broke clear and set up Lawford to score, and this time add the extras.

Soon after it was Dewsbury’s turn to break down the left through Tom Delaney, with Huddersfield loanee Monty Lumb in support to score a try. Hookem levelled the game up with the goal.

The tries kept coming, and Ben Forster skipped his way almost untouched to score next and put Halifax ahead again.

But back came Dewsbury to make it 16-16 0n 55 minutes through a second Lumb try converted by Hookem.

A crossfield kick was then brilliantly plucked from the air by the lively Johnson, who raced in.

Craig McShane fumbled a high Brough kick which his watching father would have been proud of and, when Dewsbury were caught offside near their own line with 13 minutes to play, Lawford accepted the opportunity to add the points which made it 24-16.

Jesse Soric clinched things with a superb late solo effort when little seemed on.

GAMESTAR: Alfie Johnson (pictured above) created havoc and might easily have added a couple more tries to the one he chalked up.

GAMEBREAKER: This game could have gone either way until two converted tries and a penalty-goal by Halifax in the final 13 minutes.

  1 Will Brough

  2 Ben Tibbs

19 Zack McComb

22 Darius Carter

  4 Alfie Johnson

  6 Jesse Soric

17 Myles Lawford

18 Hugo Salabio

20 Vila Halafihi

24 Delaine Gittens-Bedward

12 Owen McCarron

13 Jacob Fairbank

15 Connor Davies

Subs

  7 Curtis Davies

21 Ben Forster

  8 Will Calcott

  3 Ben Will (not used)

Tries: Tibbs (7), Lawford (43), Forster (50), Johnson (63), Soric (77)

Goals: Lawford 5/6

  1 Craig McShane

22 George Raynor

29 Bailey O’Connor

  4 George Senior

  2 Tom Delaney

19 Louis Walker

  7 Jacob Hookem

  8 Luke Nelmes

  9 Jack McShane

30 Ellis Lingard

11 Joe Summers

23 Brad Graham

16 Louis Collinson

Subs (all used)

21 Monty Lumb

17 Harvey Roberts

15 Jacob Bateman

28 Jacob Algar

Tries: Senior (20), Lumb (47, 55)

Goals: Hookem 2/3

SCORING SEQUENCE: 4-0, 4-4: 10-4, 10-10, 16-10, 16-16, 22-16, 24-16, 30-16

Panthers: Alfie Johnson; Rams: Monty Lumb

Penalty count: 8-5

Half time: 4-4

Referee: Adam Williams

Attendance: 1,821