The 2019 Uppies and Downies series came to a nail-biting conclusion last night with the Uppies coming out the eventual winners.
A hard-fought match saw neither team wanting to give any ground to the opposition.
Following a Downies victory on Good Friday and an Uppies win at the Tuesday game it was all to play for.
And the players kept spectators guessing for more than four hours before the victors were revealed.
On a rainy evening, the ball was thrown off by brothers Sonny, nine, and Byron Coulson, 12, from Barepot, who were very excited to have the honour.
A scrum immediately formed around the ball on Black Path, then moved to the field behind, but it wasn't long before play shifted into the beck.
From there it moved to Allerdale House car park, before venturing onto the Green, where temporary fencing was removed by players and spectators.
For a long time the scrum went to and fro between the Green and the car park, spending quite a while pinned against the Allerdale House boundary wall.
Then, just after 9pm, it went back into the beck at almost the point from which it started two-and-a-half hours earlier.
It spent some time on the overflow car park between Allerdale House and the leisure centre, but eventually attention turned back to the grass between Black Path and the river.
And it was there, after a concerted push by the Downies to reach the river and swim the ball home, that confusion broke out shortly after 10.20pm.
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Following a series of dummy runs and a period during which players broke into two scrums, the teams realised the ball was missing and searches in the undergrowth proved fruitless.
Eventually, attention turned to the hailing points and just before 10.40pm Carl Denver, 17, hailed the ball at Workington Hall to take the series win for the Uppies.
Carl, of Salterbeck, said: "There's no better feeling."
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