Wildcats slaughtered by Robins

Welham: three tries in the Robins' win

Hull KR kept their play-off hopes alive with a 14-try demolition of Wakefield in Sunday's Super League clash at Craven Park.

The 70-14 victory kept the club in touch with the top eight and helped ease the pressure on under-fire coach Justin Morgan.

Kris Welham, Liam Colbon and former Wakefield winger Peter Fox all scored hat-tricks to help Rovers clinch their first back-to-back league wins of the season.

Colbon got the Robins off to the perfect start after Jake Webster collected Michael Dobson's high kick and offloaded to Clint Newton.

Newton fed Colbon, who beat opposite number Semi Tadulala to score, but the usually reliable Michael Dobson failed to add the extras in what would be the first of seven missed goal attempts.

Superb

Within minutes however winger Colbon was responsible for the error that gifted Wakefield their opening try, when he allowed Tommy Lee's kick to bounce off his chest into Kevin Henderson's arms, who scored from a metre out.

Fox quickly restored the hosts' advantage with his second league try of the season after Ben Galea and Welham combined well on the left to put him over.

But Kyle Amor broke down the middle soon after before firing the scoring pass to Tommy Lee to keep the Wildcats in touch.

Rovers grabbed the lead back through Welham and Dobson landed his first conversion before Jake Webster's try made it 18-10 to the hosts.

Dobson went in under the posts and then converted his own try, and soon after Colbon claimed his second after Webster put him in the clear down the right.

Welham made a superb break to set up Fox for his second and Dobson added the extras to take the Robins into the break with a 34-10 lead.

Great hands

Rovers did not let up after the restart and within minutes Newton latched onto a loose ball and ran in to score.

Soon after Webster intercepted a stray pass inside his own half and raced 90 metres for a great individual try.

Newton then showed great hands when he gathered a Dobson kick and crossed for his second of the game, which the latter converted.

Welham clinched his hat-trick to take Rovers to 64 points, their highest score in Super League, before Luke George went over for Wakefield in the 75th minute.

But Rovers were not finished and Colbon crossed before the hooter to complete his hat-trick and compound the Wildcats' woes.