Super League: Castleford Tigers 52-16 Leigh Centurions
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Castleford have not lost to Leigh since 1987
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Castleford (34) 52 |
Tries: Watts, Smith, Olpherts 2, Eden, Evalds, Shenton, Turner, Trueman Goals: O'Brien 2, McShane 6 |
Leigh (0) 16 |
Tries: Thompson, Reynolds, Brierley Goals: Reynolds 2 |
Dominant Castleford thrashed newly promoted Leigh to continue their 100% start to the Super League campaign.
Greg Eden scored on his first start of the season as Cas ran in six first-half tries against the sluggish visitors.
Cas had Jesse Sene-Lefao sin-binned after the break but, despite the yellow card, tries for Derrell Olpherts and Jake Trueman took them past 50 points.
Leigh showed fight with scores from Ben Reynolds and Ryan Brierley but have lost all three of their opening games.
Liam Watts galloped through a gap to open the scoring for Daryl Powell's side, with Daniel Smith using momentum to get over the line and Olpherts getting his first in the corner after a free-flowing move.
Cas stand-off Gareth O'Brien was forced off with injury, but Eden scampered through on the left, Niall Evalds coasted over for his third try in three games since joining, and captain Michael Shenton held off a defender to score and make it 34-0 at the interval.
O'Brien's replacement Jordan Turner received an Evalds offload for a simple seventh score and, though Jordan Thompson's try got Leigh on the scoreboard and Sene-Lefao saw yellow for a late hit, the home side remained on top.
Olpherts strolled in for his fourth try in two games before Turner weaved through and found Jordan Trueman to finish an excellent move.
At 52-4 Leigh were able to restore some late pride as Brierley dived on a lovely grubber kick for their third try after Reynolds crossed.
However, it was an eighth successive defeat for them at the Mend-A-Hose Jungle, where Castleford were returning for Super League action for the first time in six months.
Castleford: Evalds, Olpherts, Mata'utia, Shenton, Eden, O'Brien, Trueman, Watts, McShane, Smith, Holmes, Sene-Lefao, Massey.
Interchanges: Millington, Milner, Turner, Bienek.
Leigh: Brierley, Russell, Simm, Mullen, Tierney, Mellor, Reynolds, Hellewell, Hood, Thompson, Sidlow, Peteru, McCarthy.
Interchanges: Flower, Bell, Gerrard, Peats.
Referee: M. Griffiths