RHYL Rugby Club made history on Sunday by becoming the first non-English team to win the Holbro Colts North of England Under 17s cup final.
Rhyl chairman Will Morecombe called the result "the finest hour" in Rhyl RFC history.
Rhyl broke the deadlock when flanker Sam Powell drove over from close range and Callum Bennett converting to lead 7-0.
Almost immediately Liverpool hit back the
ir outside half slicing through a gap and scoring wide out.Rhyl again attacked from the kick off and with a solid scrum and lineout piled the pressure on but could not find a way through a stubborn defence.
Dale Blackmore and Harrison Crowe started to take the opposition lineout and from one steal No 8 Tom Beaumont scored Rhyl's second try - Bennett missing the conversion.
Liverpool kicked a penalty before the referee blew for half-time.
The half ended with Rhyl 12-8 up.
The fitness of the smaller Rhyl forwards started to show in the second half and Rhyl cut loose with three more tries from second row George Cliff, outside half Nick Blyth and Wales under 16 cap George North. Bennet adding one penalty.
Two conversions came by way of two conversions by Carl Murray making a final score of 36 - 8.
A strong forward platform, starting with the front row of Tom Bond, Josh Woods and Arron Martin, allowed Rhyl's pacey backs, Scot Jones, Paul Sellwood, Kriss Wilkes and Will Jones to make telling breaks forward, with scrum half Ian Marshall always in support.
Captain Dale Blackmore lifted the cup to great cheers from his team and took the trophy out of England for the first time ever.
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