Huddersfield hammer Swinton
Huddersfield ran in nine tries as they cruised into the quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup with a 52-0 victory over Swinton.
Last Updated: 29/04/12 5:44pm
Huddersfield ran in nine tries as they cruised into the quarter-finals of the Carnegie Challenge Cup with a 52-0 victory over Swinton at the Galpharm Stadium.
Greg Eden and Jamie Cording each grabbed a double, while David Faiumu scored one and created another on his 100th appearance for the Giants.
The hosts went ahead in the seventh minute, with Danny Brough scoring a solo try that he converted himself, and never looked back against the Championship side.
Faiumu then helped put the Giants 12-0 up as he collected Luke O'Donnell's rollback near the Swinton try-line and darted over, with Brough again converting in torrential rain.
Swinton had started the contest well and had a lot of early pressure deep in Huddersfield territory, but Brough's try had opened the floodgates.
Tries
Faiumu set up Lee Gilmour for the third try of the game try on 15 minutes, just after Leroy Cudjoe had blown a chance to score by passing to the marked Scott Grix when he could have gone for it alone.
The Lions continued to show promising signs as Giants winger Aaron Murphy was forced to stop Kevin Penny going through after a breakaway by Martin Ainscough on 20 minutes.
A pass from O'Donnell was then intercepted on 23 minutes by Darren Hawkyard, whose solo break from deep was halted by Brough.
But Huddersfield were 34-0 up at the break after three quick tries, with Joe Wardle starting the flurry of points by setting up Eden on the half-hour mark.
Jason Chan then took on a Cudjoe pass on the right wing and went the long way around the Swinton defence on a dazzling solo run that he finished in the opposite corner.
And shortly after that Scott Grix spotted a small gap in the Lions defence when there seemed to be nothing on and burst through for a try.
On target
Brough put over three more conversions before the break and was on target again on 44 minutes after Eden had gone over for his second try.
Swinton's Ian Mort thought he had scored a consolation soon after, but referee Tim Roby ruled the final pass to him by Sam Reay had gone forward.
That prompted Swinton's best spell of the match, a sustained 15-minute assault on the Giants try-line that the Super League outfit managed to survive.
Cording then completed a nine-try romp with two quick tries late on, the first being an unchallenged run over the line after a Luke Robinson pass.
The scoring was finished off on 76 minutes as Cording then touched down from Aaron Murphy's set-up on eight minutes later, with Brough twice converting to finish with a 20-point haul.
