Warrington Wolves drub Wakefield Wildcats 80-0 in Super League
Last Updated: 14/04/15 6:49am
Stefan Ratchford finished with a 28-point haul as Warrington Wolves snapped a four-game losing streak with an 80-0 rout of Wakefield Wildcats at the Halliwell Jones.
The Wolves ran in 14 tries with Richie Myler bagging a hat-trick, Ratchford scoring a try and kicking 12 goals, and Gene Ormsby, Toby King and Ben Currie all touching down twice.
The other tries in a terribly one-sided contest came from Daryl Clark, Ashton Sims, Ben Westwood, Ben Currie and Joel Monaghan.
The Wolves dominated the opening exchanges with 19-year-old half-back Declan Patton denied a dream start when he was held up over the line, before Monaghan saw an early effort ruled out for a forward pass.
Warrington did break the deadlock after nine minutes through a fine individual effort by Ormsby, who skipped past Richard Owen down the left touchline and stepped inside full-back Jarrod Sammut for the opening try.
Despite being in full control it took until the 20-minute mark for the home side to increase their lead when Patton and Ratchford combined to send King over.
Wolves added a further three tries in the final 12 minutes. Firstly Myler's kick took a favourable deflection off the posts straight into the hands of Clark, who crossed, then Myler raced 40 metres to score before Sims registered his first try for the club as he crashed over from close range.
Ratchford landed all five conversions, although he missed a penalty from halfway with the last kick of the first half as the Wolves led 30-0 at the turnaround.
The hosts maintained the momentum in the second half with Ormsby claiming his second try of the game and Ratchford also crossing within nine minutes of the restart.
Wakefield continued to make mistakes and there was no mercy from the Wolves and further tries from Westwood and Monaghan, together with two further Ratchford goals, took the score to 50-0 by the hour mark.
King claimed his second try of the game in the 61st minute as the procession of tries continued, Myler grabbing his second before Currie also got in on the act.
Myler completed his hat-trick in the 75th minute before Currie claimed the 14th and final try at the death.