{"id":392583,"date":"2026-01-27T05:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392583\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:56:10","slug":"challenge-cup-championship-clubs-avoid-round-two-shocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392583\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Cup: Championship clubs avoid round-two shocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was routine progress for Championship clubs drawn to community club opposition in the second round of the Challenge Cup, with no upsets recorded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Midlands Hurricanes and North Wales Crusaders put 110 points past Aberavon Fighting Irish and Bedford Tigers respectively without a point conceded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London Broncos surpassed their previous biggest win with a 86-0 defeat of local opponents Wests Warriors to set up a tie with Bradford, while Halifax racked up an 88-0 win over London Chargers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were also big scorelines for Rochdale Hornets against Waterhead, Widnes against Thatto Heath, Goole against Mirfield, Oldham over Orrell St James, Keighley against Heworth, Barrow versus Wigan St Judes and Hunslet against Stanningley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was not all one-way traffic though, as Ince Rose Bridge gave Swinton a good tussle in their 44-26 loss, while Hunslet ARLFC, Blackbrook and West Hull kept the margin of defeat to 22 points against Batley, Workington and Dewsbury respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salford, in their first Challenge Cup outing post-rebirth, won an entertaining game 42-10 against Hammersmith Hills Hoists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doncaster squeezed past a determined Newcastle Thunder in their all-Championship tie and Sheffield Eagles overcame a gutsy Whitehaven in front of the BBC cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was routine progress for Championship clubs drawn to community club opposition in the second round of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-392583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}