A fantastic weekend for Edinburgh Monarchs continued at Ashfield on Saturday night as they ran out 48-42 winners in a match they were never behind in but still went down to the wire.

This was the first home match Monarchs had raced for four weeks, and all pre-match expectations were that it would be a close fixture against an in-form visiting team. What transpired was quite different as the Armadale side gave their best performance, not just of this season but for some time before that, with a display that the Bears just had no answer to.