Hull maintain lead at top of Super League with 30-10 win over Widnes
By Rory O'Callaghan
Last Updated: 04/06/16 10:27am
Hull maintained their two-point advantage at the top of Super League with a convincing 30-10 victory over Widnes at home on Friday evening.
Lee Radford's side led 6-4 at the break thanks to a Carlos Tuimavave try, after Rhys Hanbury had earlier opened the scoring for the Vikings.
Second-half tries from Kirk Yeaman, Josh Bowden, Danny Houghton and Jamie Shaul secured a comfortable victory for the league's in-form side, despite a late consolation score from Chris Dean.
Hull FC extended their winning league run to six matches with victory at the KC Stadium and remain two points ahead of second-place Warrington, who also won convincingly on Friday evening.
After a cagey opening 10 minutes, Widnes went in front when Hanbury outmuscled Marc Sneyd to cross over for an unconverted score.
The league leaders responded well and went in front 10 minutes later when Tuimavave fooled a number of Vikings defenders with a dummy before dancing his way over the line.
Sneyd then added the extras for the first of his five successful conversions on the night.
The hosts took just five minutes after the break to extend their advantage when Yeaman burrowed over the line from dummy-half - becoming only the second non-kicking player to reach 700 points for Hull.
Two tries in quick succession from Bowden and Houghton all-but ended the contest shortly before Shaul raced home for a fourth from almost 70 metres out.
Dean did manage to add a late consolation for the visitors with three minutes remaining but it was not enough to prevent a defeat.
Widnes remain in eighth place in Super League, just three points ahead of Hull KR in the qualifier places.
