Castleford Tigers beat last season's beaten Grand Finalists Wigan Warriors
Last Updated: 06/03/15 10:25pm
Castleford Tigers scored seven tries to crush Wigan Warriors on Friday and secure their first win of the season.
It was a dazzling night for Justin Carney who continued his fine start to 2015 with a brace as his team kick-started their Super League campaign with a stunning 42-14 victory over last year's beaten Grand Finalists.
Carney had scored four in Castleford's three defeats and he took his tally to six as the Tigers ran in three tries in the space of 10 minutes early on, with fellow winger James Clare grabbing the other.
Josh Charnley responded for the Warriors but they went into the break with an 18-point deficit after Luke Dorn, whose wife is due to give birth, marked his first appearance of the campaign with a brilliant solo effort.
Charnley, making his 100th appearance in the competition, completed his double but scores from Liam Finn, Oliver Holmes and Michael Shenton made sure the Tigers were celebrating their biggest Super League win over Wigan at full-time, despite Matty Smith's last-gasp try.
The Warriors got off to the worst possible start as Castleford worked their way down field from the kick-off - aided by a penalty and a failed interception attempt by Anthony Gelling - and opened the scoring through Carney, who brushed
off Charnley's attempted tackle.
Smith kicked the restart out on the full and from the resultant penalty the Tigers went over again as Clare took Dorn's pinpoint cut-out pass and finished spectacularly.
Luke Gale kicked the touchline conversion and repeated the feat from the opposite wing to add the extras to Carney's second try of the night.
The big Australian again showed his power to take Charnley over the line after Castleford had worked the short side.
Charnley was struggling in defence but he was on hand to score Wigan's first try of the night (18) after taking Gelling's pass following a defensive misread by Carney.
The Castleford supporters were treated to one more try before half-time as Dorn got the ball 40 metres out and raced clear, dummying a pass to Carney on his way to the line.
Wigan's task became even tougher when Gale slotted over a 20-metre penalty and although Charnley's score gave them some hope, Finn restored Castleford's 20-point advantage after his kick through rebounded back into his arms.
Holmes and Shenton both went over late on to pile more misery onto Wigan and although Smith grabbed a late consolation try the night very much belonged to the Tigers.
