REPORT | Dons 120 North Wales Crusaders 0

The Dons scored 20 tries at the Club Doncaster Sports Village to take a club-record victory against North Wales Crusaders in the Betfred Championship.

Harvey Horne, Gadwin Springer, Connor Robinson, Mitieli Vulikijapani, Brad Knowles, Isaac Misky and Pauli Paul all scored first half tries, as Tom Whitehead also found a brace inside the opening 40 minutes.

Connor Jones scored a second half hat-trick, with Whitehead and Horne also finding a third try of the day each, as Vulikijapani, Reece Lyne, Loui McConnell, Brad Hey and Sam Smeaton found further efforts to complete the scoring.
Horne made five changes to the side that fantastically saw off and beat Oldham RLFC on home soil seven days earlier, with Lyne, Vulikijapani, Springer, Smeaton and McConnell all handed spots inside the starting XIII.
The Dons started fast in DN4 and took the lead after just four minutes. Following the aid of a penalty inside the North Wales half, Horne found a gap through the middle and eventually escaped his man to score directly underneath the posts. Robinson added the extras.
The hosts were in no mood to settle and leave anything to chance and furthered their early advantage after ten minutes. McConnell found Springer at close range, who barged his way over the line to ground. Robinson converted. 12-0.
That put the Dons already firmly in the driving seat, and they scored three more tries across the next 14 minutes. First Robinson scored after 16 minutes, then Vulikijapani on 22 and Whitehead after 24. Robinson added the extras to all three tries. The Dons had a 30-point lead after 24 minutes.
Richard Horne's men were in again four minutes on. The Dons went over to the left once again, and Robinson gave the ball to Knowles to add the finishing touches to a smartly executed routine and try. Robinson converted again.
The Dons motored on towards the half time hooter to score yet another three tries. Misky got in on the act on the right, interchange, Pauli Pauli scored underneath the sticks, and Whitehead made it a personal brace for himself after 30, 33 and 35 minutes, respectively. Robinson added the extras to all three tries once again.
The half time scoreline was left at 54-0.
Five minutes after the restart, the Dons were at it again. Interchange Jones attacked down the right wing and found his way over the line to score. Robinson converted again.
And on 51 minutes, Jones made it a personal brace for himself. The hooker intercepted on halfway and raced away through the middle to score easily. Robinson added the extras again. The scrum-half's conversion took him to 2000 senior career points. 66-0.
Vulikijapni made it a personal brace for himself after 56 minutes, Horne made it a double for himself on 58 minutes and Lyne got in on the try-scoring act after 61 minutes. Robinson again converted all three tries.
Horne made it a hat-trick for himself five minutes later, as did Jones on 70 minutes, and McConnell scored after 72 minutes. Robinson kept up his 100 per cent record with the boot to add the extras to all three tries once again and take the Dons beyond the century of points mark.
In the final four minutes of the match, the hosts scored tries 18, 19 and 20 of the day. Hey, was the first of the final three on 76 minutes, then Whitehead made it a hat-trick for himself after 80, and Smeaton got the last try of the afternoon on the full time hooter. Robinson added the extras to the final group of three tries to take the Dons to 120 points.
The Dons had kept their clean sheet intact to earn a 120-0 win, a victory that gave the hosts a club record success, as well as a whole host of other records on the day.
Dons: Horne, Faraimo, Lyne, Vulikijapani, Ravalawa, Whitehead, Robinson, Knowles, Misky, Springer, Sutcliffe, Smeaton, McConnell. Interchanges: Hey, Pauli, C. Jones, Hepi.