Leicester’s Lawrence Pearce scores late try to send Newcastle bottom

• Leicester Tigers 22-10 NewcastleLeicester failed to record the expected bonus point win because of a mixture of their blunders and the tenacity of a Newcastle team who belied their lowly place by staging some heroic defence, especially in the second half. The teams turned round locked at 10-10 and Leicester needed to build ferocious periods of pressure to gain the winning tries from the centre Peter Betham and No8 Laurence Pearce in the second half.A big crowd of 21,564 departed debating how Leicester scored only three tries and had two more disallowed in a hectic first half which highlighte…