AFTER recording a fourth successive win by beating Coventry 29-21 last Saturday, Darlington Mowden Park will keep faith with their settled side at Esher tomorrow.

They could hand a starting place to new signing Jacob Woodhouse, however, while also attempting to find more game time for Simon Uzokwe.

Woodhouse, 24, is a UK ancestry visa holder who has played grade one rugby in Australia for Sydney-based Manly, mainly at full back.

Although he can also play at outside centre, full back is the one position in Mowden's team which is not settled as six people have been tried there this season.

Woodhouse toured England with Australia Schoolboys in 2009 and has previous experience in National One, helping Doncaster to the title two years ago.

Mowden's winning run will face a stern test in London tomorrow against fourth-placed Esher, who won 36-5 at Henley last week.

But if Mowden do win again, they will start to entertain hopes of climbing into the top four themselves, especially as they have a run of four home games coming up next month.

They trailed 21-17 at home to Coventry when Uzokwe went on with 15 minutes left. He had a big hand in the try which edged them in front, then scored his eighth of the season in added time.

On Mowden's annual Ladies' Day, the wild weather may have kept the crowd below 1,000, but the groundstaff's hard work ensured a good surface and the stadium provided shelter from the storm.

Having scored seven tries in the first seven games, this was Uzokwe's first in five. But he has had little game time since Mowden began their winning run.

The 21-year-old Sunderland University student, who arrived last season from Ipswich, can play at prop or hooker, but in the last two home games he has gone on at blind side.

His arrival came straight after Coventry kicked a penalty to extend their lead when down to 14 men. It was the third yellow card for the team with the division's worst disciplinary record, and Mowden benefited from keeping a clean sheet.

Coventry went ahead after four minutes through a catch-and-drive, but Mowden replied in kind four minutes later through prop Darren Fearn.

The visitors went back in front with a penalty before being reduced to 13 men. The No 6 was first to go for illegally halting a strong rolling maul, the penalty producing another catch-and-drive, finished by Rob Conquest.

Having converted the first from the left touchline, Garry Law was successful from the right and when a Coventry prop was sin-binned he landed the penalty for a 17-8 interval lead.

The visitors dominated the first ten minutes of the second half, kicking a penalty before the scrum half broke from a ruck on the 22 and turned the ball inside for a try by the posts.

The conversion put them a point ahead, but with Tom Harrison on for Fearn, Mowden came back strongly, only to be held up on the line.

It wasn't looking good when Coventry kicked another penalty, but Uzokwe made ground before another penalty to the corner produced a try for flanker Luca Petillo.

Then, in added time, Mowden opted for a five-metre scrum when awarded a free kick at a line-out. They kept driving for the line until Uzokwe wriggled over and Law's conversion left Coventry pointless.

Middlesbrough will visit Durham and Northumberland One leaders Durham City tomorrow still only one point behind after a 26-6 home win against Horden.

Playing downwind, it took Boro 25 minutes to score, but three converted tries by half-time gave them a useful cushion.

Winger Ben Wood took a ball at pace to cross in the right corner and Sam Gaudie judged the wind perfectly in converting.

Locks James Wardle and Richie Lonsdale then forced their way over and Boro restricted Horden to two penalties before Wood outpaced the defence to secure the four-try bonus with ten minutes left.

City won 42-12 at Stockton, who went ahead with a well-worked try by centre Steve Tampin, but trailed 35-5 at the interval. There was one try each in the second half, Stockton's being an individual effort by fly half Jonny Horner.

Darlington slipped nearer to relegation when their 27-10 defeat at Medicals left them 14 points adrift of third-bottom Ryton, who won 14-8 at home to Gosforth.

Northallerton remain fourth in Yorkshire Three following a 5-0 home win against Aireborough. Open rugby was impossible in atrocious conditions and the only try was scored after five minutes by Paul Dixon.