IT was tries galore on Saturday as the Cornish Pirates were involved in a match with 14 of them scored at Worcester.

However, the blotch for the Mennaye Men was the fact ten of the scores came from the hands of their hosts in the Greene King IPA Championship clash.

The Warriors showed the class which has seen them lose just once so far in the league, form which sees them two points off the division’s top spot behind an unbeaten Bristol side.

Even though the final score of 62-26 may not look like pleasant reading for Pirates fans, they can take some pride home as their team matched last year’s relegated Premiership side in the second half.

The difference on this occasion came in the opening 40 minutes as the Warriors ran in seven tries to build a 43-7 lead at the break.

Within the first ten minutes the hosts had touched down three times through Andy Symons, Max Stelling and Chris Pennell.

Home left winger Tom Biggs got the first of his three tries in the 20th minute to give Worcester the bonus point with less than a quarter of the tie gone.

Next in the queue for the Warriors was Ben Howard, but then came a rare champagne moment of the day for the visitors when Kieran Goss got his side on the scoreboard.

The winger went over in the 27th minute in what is quickly becoming a trademark for him as he intercepted a pass on his goal-line before dashing a whole pitch length to score.

Before the interval, the lead was pushed out again by the Warriors with lock Darren O’Shea scoring before Biggs went in again in the 37th minute.

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With a 36 point advantage, it was almost expected Worcester would ease up in the second half as the victory was already wrapped up.

To their credit, the Pirates did not simply lie down and take more punishment, instead opting to charge at their opponents.

Possession in the third quarter of the match was dominated by the away team and led to Goss dotting down again for his seventh of the season before full-back Laurence May added a third.

Darren Barry should have scored a fourth try only to fluff his lines near the posts.

Having taken a mini-battering for 20 minutes, the hosts got back on the front foot with three tries from Biggs, to complete his hat-trick, scrum-half Jonny Arr and replacement hooker Agustin Creevy.

But just as it seemed the Pirates would not get a much valued bonus point try, Kieran Hallett, pictured above, came up with the goods in the dying passages of play.

This final act will give the team something positive to chew on before travelling to another side in the top four, London Scottish, on Friday.

PIRATES: 15 May (Pope 68), 14 Goss, 13 Riley, 12 Dancer (Hendrickson 49), 11 Holland (Pope blood 6-15), 10 Hallett, 9 Townsend (Kessell 55); 1 Ford-Robinson, 2 Channon (Innard 68), 3 Deformes (Davies 41), 4 Graulich, 5 Barry, 6 Morgan (c, Bolwell 68), 7 Atkinson (Lowry 49), 8 Conlon.

TRIES: Goss (27, 49), May (55), Hallett (78).

CONS: Hallett 3/4.

WORCESTER: 15 Pennell, 14 Howard, 13 Stelling, 12 Symons (Mills blood 29-37), 11 Biggs, 10 Lamb (Mills 58), 9 Arr (Stephenson 68); 1 Rapava Ruskin (Bower 75), 2 George (Creevy 45), 3 Schonert (Rees 58), 4 Williams (de Carpentier blood 55-57), 5 O’Shea (de Carpentier 68), 6 Thomas (c), 7 Betty, 8 Senatore.

TRIES: Symons (3), Stelling (7), Pennell (11), Biggs (20, 37, 70), Howard (24), O’Shea (34), Arr (62), Creevy (76).

CONS: Lamb 4/7, Symons 2/3.