A HAT-TRICK of tries from young winger Kevin Penny helped Warrington Wolves secure a 60-24 victory over Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.A HAT-TRICK of tries from young winger Kevin Penny helped Warrington Wolves secure a 60-24 victory over Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.
But it certainly wasn’t all one way traffic in a “sloppy” first half when the Wolves were guilty of letting in some easy tries.
Against tougher opposition it could have been a different story but to be fair Warrington tightened their defence in the second half and also produced some dazzling attacking rugby.
Man of the match Michael Monaghan and fellow Aussie Matt King were instrumental in much of Warrington’s good play, with King helping Penny a cross the try line and scoring two himself.
The Wolves ran in a total of 11 tries with Chris Hicks coverting eight.
King, Jon Clarke, Chris Riley,Monaghan, Simon Grix and Penny all touched down
to help the Wolves establish a 34-18 interval lead against the Challenge Cup semi-finalists.
But after King had gone over for a walk in try in the opening minutes the Wildcats hit-back with two kick tries to actually lead 6-12 after 10 minutes.
But once Warrington got back in front there was no looking back.
Second half tries from King, Martin Gleeson and Chris Riley, supplemented by a
Penny brace to complete his personal treble, completed the scoring.
His final try in the last minute was a classic 90 metre effort.
After the match Head Coach Jimmy Lowes said he had been pleased with the attacking rugby but realised there was still work to do on defence.
“The boys are still working on a few new things and some of them didn’t come off. We know we have to carry on working on our defence but the boys couldn’t be faulted for effort.”
