Castleford beat Warrington to complete nightmare Easter for Wolves
Last Updated: 07/04/15 9:19am
Warrington lost their second match of the Easter weekend as they were shocked 22-14 by Castleford at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.
Tries from Jordan Tansey, Luke Dorn, Adam Milner and Ben Roberts gave Castleford the win, leaving the Wolves without a point from the Easter fixtures.
With the way Warrington started the game, it had looked ominous for the visitors. There were some strong defensive efforts from Castleford, but after 10 minutes they seemed to show fatigue from the short turnaround and Warrington began to run them ragged.
Despite that fact, it was in fact Castleford who scored first. A terrific run down the middle from Frankie Mariano splintered the defence and when he was tackled the ball was spread wide for Tansey to dot down in the corner for the opening try of the day.
The score ignited Warrington, who ran ever harder at the Tigers defence, and this time the Tigers were unable to stop them as the Wolves players' offloads spread the defence too thin for Castleford to recover.
With the defence scrambling a kick was put through, which was collected by Stefan Ratchford with not a defender in sight as he crossed the line.
Warrington's second try came directly from the restart, as the ball was spread all the way down to the left-hand touchline before Ryan Atkins received the inside ball, stepped the last defender and scored for the home side.
Castleford looked like they were in trouble as they clung on defensively, but when Warrington were penalised right in front of their line Castleford pushed the ball right and an enormous gap opened up for Dorn who brought the game level at 10-10 at half-time.
The two sides came out in the second half with Warrington looking far more threatening but they were unable to capitalise on the momentum as handling errors ensured that they could not add any points to the board.
There were 25 minutes during which the Tigers were asked to defend, but they were the first team to score in the second half. Grant Millington broke free and gave the ball to a supporting Milner who crossed over under the posts, which gave a crucial six points to the Tigers.
Immediately thereafter, a kick ahead from Castleford was charged down but Luke Gale, covering at the back, got a fortunate bounce which wrong-footed the Warrington players and allowed him to break up the right-hand side.
He was tackled short of the line but the ball was sent to Roberts on the switch and his try sealed the win for the Tigers.
Kevin Penny scored a late try to give Warrington hope, but they were unable to complete the fight-back as Castleford earned a rare away win.