Leigh Leopards ran in 5 tries as they opened their Tremendous League marketing campaign with a 26-14 victory over Leeds Rhinos at Leigh Sports activities Village.
Leeds, who completed simply behind their opponents final season in fourth, have been first on the board via a penalty from Chris Hankinson after Jarrod O’Connor had the ball knocked from his grasp.
However Innes Senior went over within the nook within the sixteenth minute – seizing on a intelligent one-handed move from Lachlan Lam – and it was 10-2 on the break after Edwin Ipape dived over for Leigh’s second strive.
There have been errors from either side, and one other very expensive one from Leeds from the restart led to the third strive, 10 seconds into the second half.
Riley Lumb spilled the ball from the kick-off, with Jack Hughes kicking via after which touching down.
Matt Davis’ subsequent strive, which additionally owed a lot to Leeds errors, was initially disallowed however the video referee dominated he had grounded the ball after a prolonged overview.
Cooper Jenkins’ particular person effort within the 52nd minute gave Leeds their first strive, whereas tempers have been fraying and a mass brawl ended with Harry Newman and Davis each despatched to the sin bin.
Leigh prolonged their result in 18 factors because of Lam’s 66th-minute strive, with Brodie Croft’s late rating for Leeds scant comfort.
Catalans kick season off with Huddersfield win
Catalans started their Betfred Tremendous League marketing campaign with a win after beating Huddersfield 26-10 at Stade Gilbert Brutus.
Tries from Ben Condon and Charlie Staines gave the hosts the benefit earlier than Sam Halsall replied on the stroke of half-time, however additional touchdowns from Tommy Makinson and Solomona Faataape secured an opening-round win, both aspect of George Flanagan crossing.
The Dragons opened the scoring within the seventeenth minute when Condon touched down and Toby Sexton added the extras earlier than they almost prolonged their benefit, however Faataape’s effort was dominated out by the video referee.
Sexton despatched the Dragons forward additional with a penalty and Staines burst via a niche to floor for his or her second strive of the night, with Sexton changing.
Oliver Russell was proven a yellow card for Huddersfield for knowledgeable foul, however the guests managed to tug one again simply earlier than half-time when Halsall broke ahead to cross within the nook, however Flanagan was unable to transform.
With a 14-4 lead, Catalans nearly struck early within the second half via Sexton, however they quickly bagged their third strive – 64 minutes in – when Faataape performed the ball into Makinson to floor, with Sexton changing.
Flanagan then replied simply minutes later for Giants after chasing down Tuimoala Lolohea’s kick and went on to attain beneath the posts earlier than changing his personal strive.
Nonetheless, the French aspect wrapped up the sport with six minutes to play when Faataape burst down the left to floor and Sexton’s conversion was profitable.
Catalans Dragons coach Joel Tomkins: “We learnt some classes from final week [against Batley], I am unsure precisely what the completion was right this moment but it surely was fairly good. Total we’re actually pleased with among the issues we did tonight.
“I am actually proud, pleased with the trouble. I used to be actually pleased with the vitality and the keenness we turned up with. Some actually good indicators for us transferring ahead via the remainder of the season. If we will hold that degree of vitality we’ll be okay.”
After competing in wet circumstances, Huddersfield Giants coach Luke Robinson stated: “I believe all credit score to Catalans, I believe they gave us a little bit of a lesson in the way you play wet-weather rugby.
“It was a bit of little bit of an vitality battle, significantly in direction of the tip of the first-half, they scored 4 tries and we scored two so there wasn’t that a lot in it. However I believe discipline place and territory have been large and that was resulting from us freely giving seven penalties in that first half.”
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