Denison Cup: Bathurst High School sweep all eight sporting events with rugby league win over Kelso High School

Bathurst's 60-4 win over Kelso saw them win all eight sport events on the cup program over the two-day competition.

A young Kelso outfit fought hard all game but couldn't match a more experienced Bathurst spine.

"Our guys controlled the ball and stuck to their plan. This Kelso side are a bit younger and smaller than our guys so we were able to get away more offloads and control the ruck," Bathurst High School teacher and coach Phil Thurgood said.

"When you've got Charlie Hutchings, Ronan Hunt-Cameron and Jackson Carter leading your team around it definitely takes some pressure off as a coach. Cooper Sutherland gives us a solid option in the front row."

Kelso coach and cup co-ordinator Mick Armstrong admired his team's effort and looks forward to seeing the squad develop over the next few years.

"They're mostly year 10 students who have a couple more years playing in this. Bathurst High are a quality team and I was happy to see a lot of our guys putting their hand up to play against an older team. That's tough to do," he said.

"Hopefully over the next couple of years, with a good group of kids coming through, we'll see our results improve."

Bathurst scored on their first set of the game when hooker Ryan Cottam was presented with a glaring gap on the Kelso line.

After a scrappy five minute period for both teams Bathurst were able to regather themselves and push the lead out to 12-0 when Charlie Hutchings latched onto a well placed Jackson Carter chip.

Centre Evan Cafe shrugged off a pair of defenders to extend Bathurst's lead before a Carter line break and some excellent footwork saw the halfback score under the posts.

Mitch Lamb put Isaac Forrest into space for a 28-0 lead.

Kelso came close to finding their first points in the 16^th minute when a mishandled bomb rolled into the Bathurst in-goal but the ball was knocked dead.

The resulting line drop out wasn't capitalised on by Kelso, with Carter finding an intercept and running 90 metres to score.

Lamb scored in the corner to give Bathurst a 38-0 lead at the break.

Things continued to play out in horror fashion for Kelso with the opening kick-off of the half sailing out on the full.

From there Aceson Burcevski was able to extend the advantage with a try on the left side of the field.

Bathurst went that way again on their next trip down the field to score through Ryan Small.

The conversion landed Bathurst on the half century mark.

Kelso got the ball back from their own kick-off and were able to find their breakthrough try on their third successive set of six when Steven Blatch crashed over in the left corner.

The joy was short lived when on their next set an errant Kelso pass allowed Forrest to kick the ball downfield and regather the it for his second try of the day.

Bathurst High School's blitz of tries was rounded out by Cafe's second scoring effort of the match.

In Tuesday's other earlier events Bathurst High won the girls' netball 59-36, boys' basketball 54-16 and league tag 32-4.

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