ST ALBANS CENTURIONS are still without a National League point after following a narrow opening day defeat with a far more resounding loss at Woolston Rovers on Saturday, 46-10 the final score.

Playing at Warrington Wolves' Wilderspool ground, the Centurions restricted Woolston to an eight-point lead at the break, but they were unable to live with their hosts in the second period.

Woolston opened the scoring in the 13th minute when a scrum on the St Albans line saw four players combine to find debutant winger Andy Wroe to score in the corner, with Mark Roughneen converting.

A penalty, followed by another converted try then increased their lead, but St Albans had something to cheer moments before the interval, when Tony Eisenhuth found Dene Miller in space. He went over for Steve Toon to convert.

Four quick tries after the restart ended the match. Straight from the kick-off, Rovers moved the ball upfield and Roughneen's chip bounced off a St Albans player and into the arms of a Rovers player to score an unconverted try.

Two minutes later, slick passing stretched the Centurions defence and Cosgrove was on hand to score his second try. Roughneen added the touchline conversion. The next try for Rovers saw second row Matt Patterson bounce through three attempted tackles to score, with Roughneen again adding the points, before good play by Wallington saw him use Dave Powlesland as a dummy runner to put Patterson through to add Rovers' fourth try in a blistering ten-minute spell, taking the score to 36-6.

Centurions then lost another try when, from an attacking position, they gave up possession and Rover's quick counter-attack concluded with Kris Buckley outpacing their defence .

To their credit, St Albans hit back when a long ball from Daniel Wortley found winger Neil Yates, who fed Nick Walker to add a semblance of respectability to the score-line, but before the end even that was snuffed out as Malone added Woolston's eighth try of the match, with the extra points from Roughneen's boot completing the 46-10 rout.

Centre Dene Miller was Centurions' man-of-the-match, although prop forward Ken Edwards, second row Brian Stokes and loose forward Quentin Kersh ran him close.