WARRINGTON completed their league season with a comfortable 14-52 victory at Widnes, ensuring their near neighbours finished bottom of the table.
The victory meant Warrington finished just one point behind league leaders Wigan and go into the play-offs in good form as they prepare to face St Helens at the Halliwell Jones on Saturday evening,kick off 6pm.
Widnes opened the scoring after four minutes through Winterstein with Hanbury adding the extras but six minutes later the Wolves were back on level terms as Mickey Higham went over and Lee Briers landed the conversion.
It was then mostly one way traffic for the rest of the half as Warrington ran in four more tries through Rhys Williams (19), Chris Riley (28) Stefan Ratchfgord (33) and David Solomona (39). But Briers couldn’t improve any of the scores making it 6-22 at the break.
Two minutes after the re-start Riley grabbed his second try, which was this time converted by Briers. The hosts hit back with a try for McShane two minutes later but Warrington took control of the game again with tries from Chris Hill (56) and a second for Higham on 66 minutes. Briers was again on target with with both to make the game safe at 10-40.
Hanbury crossed for the Vikings on 71 minutes but it was the Wolves who had the final say with two tries in the last three minutes from Ryan Atkins and Paul Wood.
Briers converted the first and allowed Solomona the honour of converting the final one with his first goal for the club in his final league outing.
WARRINGTON completed their league season with a comfortable 14-52
victory at Widnes, ensuring their near neighbours finished bottom of the
table.Wolves leave Vikings rock bottom
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