Lock Lane let an early 12-0 lead slip after having a player sent-off and two sin-binned in their National League Premier Division game at play-off hopefuls West Bowling.
The relegation threatened Castleford side were 12-0 ahead courtesy of tries by Max Hope and Morgan Jones, with Morgan Punchard landing the first two of his four goals, but a series of subsequent cards proved to be costly as they ended up on the wrong side of a 34-24 result.
Hakin Aydin was given a yellow card on 17 minutes for a late hit, shortly after Owen Simpson had opened Wests’ account and Harvey Williams had kicked the first of his five goals.
And Tom Newbound was sin-binned six minutes before the break as Lane saw an 18-16 lead turned into a 24-18 deficit in his absence.
The visitors also had Ryan Backhouse sent-off as the hour approached, with Bowling’s Ellis Hobson seeing red too in the incident.
The sides were level at 24-24 at that stage, but Wests went on to win thanks to Hayden Spence’s late brace of tries.
Lewis Magson, Alix Stephenson and Chris Cullimore also crossed for the Bradford side while Lane had been level through a Connor McGrath touchdown and Jones’ second score.
Lock Lane host York Acorn this Saturday as they look to climb from their third bottom position against opponents one place above them.
Featherstone Lions leapfrogged Skirlaugh into top spot in the Yorkshire B Conference when they beat them convincingly 36-12.
The Lions raced over for seven tries with all scored by different players as Kieran Redfearn, Liam Kay, John Davies, Elliott Bell, Jack Brears, Josh Hardcastle and Alfie Beresford all touched down.
Kay added four conversions and took the players’ player award with Beresford winning the NCL man of the match.
Fourth-placed Fryston Welfare won 15-8 at home to Milford while Kippax Welfare moved up to sixth with a 20-6 victory at home to Siddal Academy.
Kippax make the short travel to Featherstone Lions this Saturday with Fryston away to Hull Dockers.