South London Storm picked up their second pre-season win with a battling 22-8 victory at Leicester Phoenix.

A tough encounter that at times threatened to spill over saw the Londoners ease away in the second half having trailed 8-6 at half time.

Storm looked the more threatening from the start but a number of unenforced errors meant they were unable to trouble the try line.

The home team took advantage of a missed tackle 40m out to open the scoring with a well worked try for their left winger.

The visitors replied almost immediately as after a spell of sustained pressure on the Leicester line, Luke Bonnor laid the platform for Adam Tran to cross to level the scores, Matty O'Shea padding the conversion.

A second Phoenix try took the hosts into an 8-6 half-time lead, but Storm found some form at the start of the second half.

First, Shae Mutu finished off a flowing backline move to score. Then, Matt Stringer broke from halfway for a great solo try, Lee McCarthy’s conversion making it 16-8.

Returning centre Pete Maddigan sealed victory 16 minutes from time with a smart try, with O’Shea again converting.

Storm: Chris True, Andy Pryor, Matt Stringer (1t), Pete Maddigan (1t), Adam Hargrave, Shae Mutu (1t), matty O'Shea (2g), Adam Tran (1t), Luke Bonnor, Parata Ainsley, Matt Smith, Shun Tamura, Kent Ashcroft. Subs: Andrew Vernon, Andy Gilvary, Neil Templeman, Matt Burke, Ewen Drummond, Rob Mitchell, Lee McCarthy (1g), Brett Murphy, Brett Thompson , Nick Uanue.

Storm man of the match Adam Tran