SHANE Toal grabbed two tries to help Barrow Raiders overcome Workington Town and all but secure second place in Kingstone Press League One in a fiery derby encounter at Craven Park this afternoon.

The winger opened and concluded the scoring in the 36-14 victory, which also saw Nathan Mossop, Ryan Fieldhouse, Jamie Dallimore and Ollie Wilkes grab one try apiece for the Raiders.

But it was a fractious encounter as well due to both sides having two men sent to the sin-bin, plus Workington's Macaulay Davies being given his marching orders early in the second half following an ugly high tackle on Dan Abram.

The visitors thought they had scored after just two minutes when Gabriel Fell went over in the corner, only for referee Steve Race to adjudicate the final pass to the winger had been forward.

A line-break from hooker Mossop then led to Barrow opening the scoring four minutes later, with the hooker bursting 20 metres and Lewis Charnock putting in a kick to the corner which was pulled down by Shane Toal for an unconverted try.

This came shortly after both Martin Aspinwall and Perry Singleton were sin-binned following a scuffle, and it was the home side who coped better during this period.

Mossop got himself on the score-sheet on 10 minutes, bursting over under the posts to give Charnock a simple shot at goal after sprinting from dummy-half when Joe Bullock was held up just short.

Four minutes later, stand-off Dallimore put through another testing kick and Fieldhouse was first to it, with the full-back deemed to have got the ball down despite it bouncing and Charnock slotting over the conversion.

Charnock edged Barrow further ahead in the 24th minute with a penalty from around 20 metres out, although Workington did hit back eight minutes later after ex-Barrow Island amateur Singleton put through a kick which was chased down by Fell for an unconverted try out wide.

The Raiders half-backs combined for another try just before the hooter sounded for half time though when Charnock put in a kick for Dallimore to score behind the posts, which the scrum-half duly converted.

The match descended into a scrappy affair when play resumed though and tempers flared when Brett Phillips was sin-binned for a late hit on Charnock, followed by Davies being dismissed for clotheslining interchange hooker Abram on 56 minutes – with the Barrow player being shown a yellow card for retaliating.

Skipper Wilkes powered his way through the Workington defence for another Barrow try from the resulting penalty and, following another scuffle in the aftermath, Charnock kicked the conversion to take the hosts to 30 points.

Workington did manage two tries after this, with second row Phillips finishing after Town had worked a numerical advantage out wide – Carl Forber adding the conversion – and then Theerapol Ritson punishing Fieldhouse for failing to deal with a kick to grab an unconverted score.

But it was wide-manToal who had the final word, racing 60 metres down the touchline and over for his second of the match with four minutes to go and putting the seal on a hard-fought victory

Barrow Raiders: Ryan Fieldhouse; Shane Toal, Declan Hulme, Eze Harper, Brett Carter; Jamie Dallimore, Lewis Charnock; Joe Bullock, Nathan Mossop, Ollie Wilkes, Jarrad Stack, Bradd Crellin, Martin Aspinwall. Interchange: Dan Abram, Dan Toal, Tom Walker, James Duerden.

Workington Town: Theerapol Ritson; Joe Hambley, Perry Singleton, Jason Mossop, Gabriel Fell; Carl Forber, Jamie Doran; Tom Curwen, Stuart Haworth, Kris Coward, Brett Phillips, Macauley Davies, Gordon Maudling. Interchange: Kyle Shelford, Callum Phillips, Danyal Rasool.

Referee: Steve Race.