Sunday 10th May 09

Hull KR needed a last-minute try from Ben Fisher to clinch a hard-fought 34-24 victory over a spirited Sheffield Eagles and book a place in the Carnegie Challenge Cup quarter-finals.

The Eagles certainly caused Rovers plenty of problems and had Justin Morgan's men defending desperately at times.

There was a return to the Rovers line-up for Stanley Gene for possible a final crack at Cup success but they lost Liam Colbon in the warm-up and youngster Frankie Mariano was included on the bench for his first team debut.

The home side had a scare on three minutes when Brendon Lindsay's kick through only just went dead.

On six minutes a sweeping move to the right ended with Jake Webster going over in the corner. Michael Dobson's conversion hit both an upright and the crossbar before bouncing over.

It took the Eagles just six minutes to level when Menzie Yere powered his way over the line, with Johnny Woodcock converting.

This served as a wake up call for Rovers and Dobson and Cooke sent in Gene for a 19th-minute try, converted by Dobson, and three minutes later a Cooke kick bounced back from an upright to leave Fisher with the easiest of tries. Dobson again converted.

Before the break they made it 22-6 with an unconverted try from Clint Newton.

Sheffield had a stroke of luck on the restart when Mariano knocked on from the kick-off and Sheffield got Sam Barlow over for a try converted by Woodcock.

At the other end Mariano looked to have atoned for his error by getting over the line but referee Thierry Alibert penalised him for a double movement.

On 59 minutes a Kyle Wood kick was gathered by Woodcock who scored and then added the conversion to make the score 22-18.

Two minutes later Rovers had restored the gap with a try from Shaun Briscoe, converted by Dobson but Wood burrowed over for the Eagles on 70 minutes with Woodcock converting.

That set up a tense finish but Fisher made sure for Rovers when he forced his way over in the last minute with Dobson landing his fifth conversion out of six.