Featherstone Rovers 74 Workington 0: Rovers add to their amazing points tally

FREE-scoring Featherstone stormed through to the fourth round, taking their haul to 234 points in four victories in 12 days.
By The Newsroom
Published 8th Mar 2010, 07:48 BST
Updated 8th Mar 2010, 09:29 BST

Jesse-Joe Parker and Tommy Saxton each scored three tries and Liam Finn bagged a try and nine goals from nine kicks.

Featherstone went ahead after just 29 seconds through Liam Welham then Parker bagged his first score to spark a burst of three tries in five minutes.

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Jonny Grayshon, Parker himself, Saxton and Ian Hardman eased Featherstone to a 32-0 interval lead and the one-way traffic continued after the break.

Parker completed his treble and Steel and Saxton went over.

Rovers, with nine changes to the team that won 68-0 at Hunslet Hawks last Thursday, completed the rout with further tries from Kain, Finn, Grayshon and Saxton.

Briggs kicked two first-half goals before he sustained a leg injury.

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Featherstone Rovers: Hardman; Steel, Parker, Welham, Saxton; Briggs, Finn; Divorty, Kaye, Dickens, Grayshon, Dale, Field. Substitutes: Tonks, Morrison, Kain, Lee.

Workington Town: Frazer; Backhouse, Beattie, Low, Wilson; L Finch, Kaighan; McGoff, Marshall, Whitehead, J Finch, Stack, Campbell. Substitutes: Coupar, McKenna, Burgess, Robinson.

Referee: Matthew Thomason (Warrington).

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