London Broncos, Midlands Hurricanes, Rochdale Hornets and Widnes Vikings are the four sides that will compete in this year\u2019s 1895 Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Midlands were the first side to book their semi-final spot, doing so on Friday night at Boundary Park where they pulled off an upset to beat Oldham 40-34 in their own backyard.<\/p>\n
A high-scoring affair was locked at 24-24 come the break, and the points didn\u2019t slow down from there on in, with the Hurricanes just edging it in the end.<\/p>\n
Luis Roberts and Tyler Dickinson were among their try-scorers on the road.<\/p>\n
1895 Cup quarter-final round-up with London and Widnes among sides in hat<\/p>\n
Sunday brought the other three quarter-final ties, with London dominating their clash at home against Doncaster.<\/p>\n
A 52-20 win in Richmond saw Jason Demetriou\u2019s side progress into the semi-finals, maintaining their 100% record this season at Championship level across league and 1895 Cup, with their only defeat coming against Bradford Bulls in the Challenge Cup.<\/p>\n
Rochdale were also comfortable winners, beating Goole Vikings 24-6 at the Crown Oil Arena.<\/p>\n
Former Super League stalwart Junior Sa\u2019u got on the scoresheet for the Hornets.<\/p>\n
The dramatic tie of the quarter-finals came at Robin Park Arena in Wigan, where Widnes staged their clash against Newcastle Thunder due to the DCBL Stadium being unavailable.<\/p>\n
Visitors Thunder raced into an 18-0 half-time lead, and even led 20-6 until the 64th minute, when Max Roberts found his way over the line for hosts Widnes.<\/p>\n
The Vikings then scored through Sam Wilde to move within two, and he scored with eight minuted left on the clock to go in front for the first time.<\/p>\n
Jack Owens\u2019 late try put the icing on the cake of a dramatic comeback for Allan Coleman\u2019s side, who are now into the hat for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
1895 Cup quarter-final results<\/p>\n
Oldham 34-40 Midlands Hurricanes
\nRochdale Hornets 24-6 Goole Vikings
\nWidnes Vikings 30-20 Newcastle Thunder
\nLondon Broncos 52-20 Doncaster<\/p>\n
Semi-final draw information<\/p>\n
The draw for the last four will be conducted by York Knights star Liam Harris, with the two ties to be announced on Monday afternoon (May 18) at 4pm.<\/p>\n
There is guaranteed to be a new name on the trophy this year as none of the four sides still involved have won it previously.<\/p>\n
Of the four, Widnes came the closest to doing so when they made the inaugural final in 2019, only to be beaten at Wembley by Sheffield Eagles.<\/p>\n
This year, the final will not take place at Wembley. A venue is still to be confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London Broncos, Midlands Hurricanes, Rochdale Hornets and Widnes Vikings are the four sides that will compete in this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591971","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\/591971","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=591971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}