Wolves shred Crusaders

Brett Hodgson: two tries and 10 goals for Warrington

Warrington enjoyed the perfect response to back-to-back defeats by crushing Crusaders 64-6.

The Wolves ran in 11 tries against the Super League's bottom side, full-back Brett Hodgson scoring two of them and converting 10 for a 28-point haul.

Rhys Williams, who began the season on loan with Crusaders, also touched down for the home side while Ben Westwood and Ryan Atkins claimed two tries apiece.

Louis Anderson, Chris Bridge, Joel Monaghan and Richie Myler were also on the scoresheet for the rampant Wolves.

The visitors, still adrift at the foot of the table with zero points, managed to take the lead through Rhys Hanbury's scamper from dummy half in the second minute, but it was all one-way traffic from there on in.

Remarkably, it took 20 minutes for the Wolves to finally break through as Crusaders defended bravely.

Bridge and Hodgson both went close before the latter ended the resistance when he raced onto a Michael Monaghan offload to go over.

The second try followed in quick succession as the probing Hodgson set up Westwood.

A quick move just after the half hour saw Atkins send Williams over in the corner to touch down against the side he scored three tries for earlier in the campaign.

Anderson extended the lead to 24-6 before the interval when he leapt to claim a Michael Monaghan kick and crash over.

Clinical

Warrington began the second half in the same clinical fashion and went further ahead when Atkins beat Clinton Schifcofske to Williams' excellent kick from the left touchline.

Hodgson and Bridge then combined to create Westwood's second before Bridge himself touched down after Michael Monaghan broke from the resulting kick-off.

Atkins raced in from distance after being found by an Anderson pass and the procession was only interrupted by a scuffle which saw Vince Mellars and Bridge sin-binned for fighting.

Warrington refused to step off the gas and claimed three more tries in a seven-minute spell towards the end.

Hodgson completed a sweeping move to dive over for his second and Joel Monaghan found room on the right to add another.

Myler crossed for the final try five minutes from time and Hodgson, who missed just one shot at goal all night, stepped up to knock over his 10th conversion.