Featherstone 0-68 Warrington: Harvey Livett stars as Wolves stay unbeaten in Qualifiers
Last Updated: 17/09/17 7:35pm
Harvey Livett scored 28 points and Peta Hiku claimed three tries as Warrington maintained their unbeaten Super 8 Qualifiers record with a 68-0 victory at Featherstone.
The full-time Betfred Super League side, in their first game since it was announced that coach Tony Smith would be standing down at the end of the season, ran in seven tries before the break and five more afterwards against the Kingstone Press Championship part-timers.
There were seven different tryscorers for Warrington, while Rovers were shut out at the other end.
Wolves are now all but mathematically certain to finish top of the eight sides contesting the end of season promotion/relegation shoot-out, ahead of their final game at home to second-placed Hull KR next Saturday.
Featherstone remain without a win in any of their 13 matches in the Qualifiers over the past two seasons, with their last chance coming at fellow Championship outfit Halifax next Sunday.
Wolves, with Daryl Clark, Ben Pomeroy, Ben Currie, Jack Johnson and Morgan Smith all back in the side, led 16-0 after only eight minutes.
A mistake from Kyran Johnson, dropping a high bomb after just 90 seconds, resulted in Stefan Ratchford putting Hiku over from the scrum.
Hiku and Kevin Brown almost immediately combined to put Stefan Ratchford under the posts for the visitors' second try - Livett converting both.
Featherstone's woes worsened when a Currie offload enabled Livett to squeeze over in the corner, although the Warrington centre pulled his third kick of the afternoon wide.
A Chris Hill offload then sent Jack Hughes sidestepping his way around the full-back and Pomeroy added a fifth try in the corner to further increase the lead.
NRL-bound Andre Savelio used his strength and guile to weave his way across the whitewash barely two minutes after coming on as a substitute, before Hughes grabbed his second try on the back of a Ratchford break just before half-time.
Rovers, bolstered by the return after suspension of Darrell Griffin and Richard Moore, from injury, savoured few chances before the break and lost Bradley Tagg to a leg problem early in the second half.
Hiku and Livett added further touchdowns to bring up the half-century mark before a stirring move, involving a multitude of players over 60 metres, culminated in Jack Johnson touching down a Ratchford kick to the corner.
Hiku completed his hat-trick, then Johnson scored Wolves' 12th and final try, leaving Featherstone coach John Duffy still without a win since taking charge of Rovers in mid July.