Cade Cust was sent off for Hull FC in the Good Friday clash with Hull Kingston Rovers.
Round 8 Results
Wakefield Trinity 13-12 Castleford Tigers
The Easter Bank Holiday weekend opened with a thriller at Belle Vue, with both teams looking to get back to winning ways after successive losses. Castleford, with the longer losing string of the two, got off the quicker start with a hat-trick of tries in the first half – including a double from Jason Qareqare.
Rowan Milnes’ kicking issues meant the half time deficit, however, was only twelve points – which Wakefield Trinity were able to reel in in the second part of the second half. Harvey Smith went over first and Max Jowitt contributed the following eight points with a pair of conversions and a try of his own, before Mason Lino iced the game with a drop goal in the 76th minute.
Wakefield Trinity 13
Tries: Max Jowitt, Harvey Smith
Goals: Max Jowitt 2
Field Goals: Mason Lino
Jowitt, Scott, Hall, Pratt, Johnstone, Pitts, Lino, McMeeken, Hood, Rodwell, Nikotemo, Griffin, Cozza, Uele, Atoni, Smith, Faatili.
Castleford Tigers 12
Tries: Jason Qareqare 2, Sam Wood
Hoy, Simm, Cini, Wood, Qareqare, Asi, Milnes, Okoro, Horne, Lawler, Mellor, Simbiken, Mustapha, Westerman, Rimbu, Salabio, Dezaria.
Hull FC 14-28 Hull KR
KR pretty much confirmed they are kings of the city with a second win in the space of two weeks over fierce rivals FC. The Robins dominated the first half, drawing first blood early in the first half through Oliver Gildart before Pita Hiku reinforced the lead off the back of some slick shape down the KR left edge.
The main talking point came in between the scores, however, with Cade Cust making direct forceful contact to the head of Artur Morgue that resulted in a red card that set alight the touchpaper for the game.
It was an uphill challenge for the black and whites from then on but they acquitted themselves well in the circumstances, scoring the first two tries of the second half before succumbing to Hull KR at the back end of the game.
Hull FC 14
Tries: Tom Briscoe, Jordan Rapana, Jack Ashworth
Goals: Will Pryce 1
Pryce, Briscoe, Rapana, Litten, Martin, Cust, Sezer, Ese’ese, Bourouh, Knight, Chamberlain, Hardaker, Asiata, Aydin, Ashworth, Balmforth, Eseh.
Hull Kingston Rovers 28
Tries: Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, Peta Hiku, Oliver Gildart, Joe Batchelor, Arthur Mourgue
Goals: Arthur Mourgue 3, Mikey Lewis 1
Mourgue, Davies, Hiku, Gildart, Burgess, Lewis, May, Sue, Litten, Waerea-Hargreaves, Hadley, Batchelor, Minchella, Luckley, Whitbread, Broadbent, Tanginoa.
Wigan Warriors 24-14 St Helens RLFC
Embed from Getty ImagesSomewhat stale to begin with, a bit of Bevan French and Jai Field magic combined for the latter to cross just shy of the 30-minute mark. From then on Wigan took control and added to their tally shortly after through Abas Miski collecting a loose ball off a kick to cross in the corner.
Just before half time, Moses Mbye copped a high tackle call that saw him sent for ten minutes in the bin, but Sam Walters delivered a similar shot after the half time break which saw the numbers level for a short period. In that time, however, Wigan extended their lead and through Jai Field and looked pretty comfortable until Lewis Murphy got over in the 64th minute with an incredible acrobatic finish.
Soon after, Agnatius Paasi got the visitors within one score but while chasing the game late on Sailor coughed up the ball and Wigan sealed the win with another Abas Miski try – moving up to second in the league in the process.
Wigan Warriors 24
Tries: Jai Field 2, Abbas Miski 2
Goals: Harry Smith 4
Field, Miski, Eckersley, Wardle, Marshall, French, Smith, Byrne, Leeming, Walters, Nsemba, Farrell, Ellis, O’Neill, Dupree, Hill.
St Helens 14
Tries: Agnatius Paasi, Lewis Murphy
Goals: George Whitby 3
Sailor, Bennison, Whitley, Percival, Murphy, Welsby, Whitby, Walmsley, Mbye, Lees, Sironen, Batchelor, Knowles, Clark, Paasi, Delaney, Sambou.
Leeds Rhinos 28-6 Huddersfield Giants
A fairly poor game for the majority of the first half with Huddersfield managing to keep multiple Leeds try efforts at bay, until the 31st minute where Lachlan Miller found the first piece of finishing prowess for the game.
Buoyed by the try going into half time, Leeds added to it after the breakthrough Kallum Watkins – who scored on his ‘second debut’ for the club. Handley added to the total with an excellent catch soon after in one way traffic before Jake Connor and Ryan Hall got four-pointers of their own, while the Giants managed to avoid being held to nil with a Tom Burgess (off a great overs line) just six minutes from time.
Leeds Rhinos 28
Tries: Ryan Hall, Kallum Watkins, Jake Connor, Ash Handley, Lachlan Miller
Goals: Lachlan Miller 4
Miller, Hall, Newman, Handley, Lumb, Connor, Frawley, Jenkins, O’Connor, Holroyd, McDonnell, Gannon, Palasia, Lisone, Bentley, Watkins, Sinfield.
Huddersfield Giants 6
Tries: Thomas Burgess
Goals: George Flanagan Jr 1
McGowan, Halsall, Bibby, Sutcliffe, Carr, Gagai, Flanagan Jr, Wilson, Golding, Burgess, Greenwood, Hewitt, Milne, Bibby, Billington, Sykes, Algar.
Leigh Leopards 18-14 Warrington Wolves
A thriller that went down to the wire – pardon the pun – with a late comeback from Warrington that culminated in a final play shot to score a try to level it up. The tight win for the Leopards made it three on the bounce for the home side to take them to third in the league on points difference, while the Wolves now sit ninth.
Warrington went up early through a Marc Sneyd penalty goal, before Leigh stretched out to a strong 16-point league with good periods either side of half time. Following the 60-minute mark, Warrington began to pressure for a comeback and got joy through Toby King and Matty Ashton to set up a grandstand finish in the final ten minutes.
Leigh Leopards 18
Tries: Frankie Halton, Edwin Ipape, Ethan O’Neill
Goals: Gareth O’Brien 3
Armstrong, McIntosh, Hodgson, Brand, Charnley, O’Brien, Lam, Trout, Ipape, Mulhern, Halton, O’Neill, Liu, Hughes, Pene, Tuitavake, Davis.
Warrington Wolves 14
Tries: Toby King, Matthew Ashton
Goals: Marc Sneyd 3
Dufty, Thewlis, King, Tai, Ashton, Walker, Sneyd, Yates, Powell, Vaughan, Russell, Fitzgibbon, Currie, Philbin, Musgrove, Crowther, Wood.
Catalans Dragons 38-10 Salford Red Devils
Now in full flow, Catalans Dragons made it a hat-trick of wins – two of which against Salford – with a comfortable victory against the struggling Red Devils. Makinson grabbed a hat-trick among the seven tries for the home side, while the middles also got some joy with Julien Bousuet and Chris Satae also crossing the whitewash.
The gulf between the sides was clear with 32 unanswered points before Salford – to their credit – stuck in the game towards the back end and got some joy of their own through Jonny Vaughan and former Dragon Tiaki Chan to soften the final margin.
Catalans Dragons 38
Tries: Thomas Makinson 3, Tariq Sims, Julian Bousquet, Tevita Satae, Matthieu Laguerre
Goals: Guillermo Aispuro-Bichet 5
Aispuro-Bichet, Makinson, Laguerre, Yaha, Darrélator, Keary, Fages, Pangai Junior, Garcia, Bousquet, Sims, Sironen, Partington, Da Costa, Satae, Navarrete, Séguier.
Salford Red Devils 10
Tries: Tiaki Chan, Jonny Vaughan
Goals: Ryan Brierley 1
Brierley, Connell, Marsters, Vaughan, Thewlis, Nikorima, Morgan, Ormondroyd, Mellor, Chan, Hellewell, Foster, Wilson, Shorrocks, Sangaré, Makin, Hill.
