Darlington are still searching for their first away win in National Three North after hopes of a double over Tynedale came unstuck on a heavy Corbridge pitch.

Tynedale won 19-3, effectively sealing victory with tries after 23 and 29 minutes when they were facing the wind.

A Mark Butler penalty reduced the gap to 12-3 at half-time, but Darlington were unable to take advantage of Tynedale having two men in the sin-bin just after half-time and the hosts scored again five minutes from time.

Although they tried to play their usual open rugby, and at times handled the heavy ball well, there was no pace or penetration in the Darlington backs.

Nor could they get their rolling maul going, and when they did manage to drive Tynedale's depleted scrum backwards just after the break Del Lewis lost the ball as he went for the line.

The first try came from a scrum on the home 22 when Ed Holmes made a 40-metre break and sent full back Phil Belgian over.

Belgian converted then supplied the pass for winger Ben Duncan to slide over, but Butler's penalty gave Darlington hope, especially when repeated infringements under pressure saw Andy Robson yellow-carded right on half-time and Paul Mooney five minutes later.

Tynedale defended heroically with 13 men and when Darlington wasted a clear overlap it obviously wasn't going to be their day.

With five minutes left Paul Boston kicked the ball almost to the Darlington line and the forwards followed up to set up a try for Mooney, which Belgian converted.

Blaydon ended a lean run with a 37-3 home win against Kendal, although it took them 30 minutes to get going.

Playing his first game for seven weeks, there was a second half hat-trick for centre Matt Dehaty, scoring twice from close range and once from 45 metres.

His fellow centre Nick Gandy was involved in both the first half tries and it was just as well the game was safe by the time he limped off as Blaydon had no backs replacements.

Gandy's long pass found full back Colin Duncan, whose clever kick ahead bounced kindly for winger Simon Barber to score.

Then Gandy broke from his own half and made ground up the left before sending Barber in again.

Kendal kicked a penalty just before half-time, but Dehaty's first try came three minutes after the break as Blaydon dominated the second half.

In the absence of David Dalrymple, whose car broke down, Dan Clappison kicked two conversions and two penalties and Richard Windle also added a conversion.

Middlesbrough consolidated second place in North Two East with a 25-12 win at Bridlington, despite a poor start which saw them trailing 9-3 at half-time.

They were much better after the break and quickly went ahead when No 8 Mark Hatfield scored from the back of a scrum and Simon Moore converted.

With the tight forwards doing well, Boro dominated and centre Lee Richardson cut through to score a good try ten minutes later.

Bridlington's fourth penalty cut the gap to 15-12, but Ian Bircham added to his first half drop goal with a penalty and converted a close-range try by scrum half Peter Wright.

West Hartlepool moved above Bridlington into fifth place with a 17-12 win at home to Redcar.

West led 17-0 with ten minutes left, and despite Redcar pressure leading to a series of late penalties the hosts were never in danger of defeat as Redcar scored a converted try right at the death.

West did well against a bigger pack and led 10-0 at half-time after Phil Wallis kicked a penalty and converted a try by winger Steve Black following a pick-up by No 8 Stuart Bennett.

Wallis kicked another penalty before the Redcar forwards began to get on top, only for hooker Martyn Challenor to be sin-binned for wildly rushing into the side of a ruck.

West scored again after 63 minutes against the run of play when Redcar dropped the ball and Allan Milne picked up and raced 40 metres to the posts, Wallis again converting.

Redcar scored from a catch-and-drive after 70 minutes, but they had left themselves too much to do.

Stockton's improvement also continued as they won 35-9 at home to Northern with three of the five tries coming from Browns.

Skipper Alan Brown led a forward charge to touch down in his first full game of the season and his brother Wayne finished a superb move which saw the ball move through eight pairs of hands. But the most spectacular effort came from prop Simon Brown.

Collecting the ball just outside the 22 he dummied past two tackles and side-stepped the full back to score ten minutes after half-time. A good break by Andy Bare set up the first try for fellow winger Simon Crozier and full back Graham Kell scored a late try.

Jeremy Good and Northern's Matt Jinks both kicked two penalties as Stockton built an 18-6 half-time lead. Good also added two conversions.

Northallerton's pitch was unfit for the top-of-the-table clash with Castleford in Yorkshire Three, which has been rearranged for January 17.

There was further reason to question the continued existence of West Hartlepool Amateurs as they agreed to call a halt after 65 minutes at Whitby. They were trailing 65-0 and have lost all 13 matches in Durham and Northumberland Division Three.