Bury continued their winning run in the league with a comfortable 73-0 victory against Crosby St Mary’s in their first home fixture of the season on Saturday.

The hosts, who currently top the North West Division Two table, opened the scoring from an Adam Heath penalty before Wayne Elloway extended the lead with his first try of the afternoon. Heath converted with ease from directly under the sticks.

It was not long before Bury started to spread the ball wider, resulting in two consecutive penalties with Ed Watkins reaping the benefits from the second to score in the corner. The effort was again converted.

The first of Ben Shedwick’s two tries for the afternoon came from a quick backs move involving scrum-half Karl Simpson, outside centre, Shedwick and full-back Dan Jones.

Fast hands created a gap in the Crosby defence which allowed the inside-centre to crash through and finish under the posts.

In an afternoon where the Bury pack dominated the set piece in all facets of the game, the next try for Ben Holland epitomised the forwards work rate. From a catch and drive at the line out, Bury mauled their way towards the try line with Holland peeling off the back and brushing off the attempted tackles to score.

In an almost identical move, Elloway scored his second of the afternoon before prop forward Andy Townsend stormed forward and swan-dived over the line.

Early in the second period, Ian Marshall ran onto the ball and through three tackles before passing the ball to Sam Ware to continue the scoring.

With the tries coming thick and fast, the final try of note came from another well worked set piece. With the ball moved strategically from a set maul and controlled masterfully by returning club captain Jonny Allen, man-of-the-match Elloway was able to muscle his way over the line and complete his hat-trick.

Bury travel to Eagle next Saturday, kick-off 3pm.