Leigh Centurions stormed to the top of the Betfred Championship with a 64-0 thrashing of London Broncos.
Krisnan Inu enjoyed a highly eventful day as he scored a hat-trick of tries and kicked nine conversions, despite also being sent to the sin-bin in the last few seconds of the first half.
The home side scored 11 tries in total, with Aaron Smith grabbing a brace, while the hapless Broncos have now taken just one point from nine games.
Workington remain bottom of the table without a point after suffering a last-gasp 19-18 defeat at Dewsbury Rams.
Late tries from Alex Young and Caine Barnes looked to have secured the visitors a point as they fought back superbly from 18-6 down, only for Michael Knowles to kick a drop goal in the dying seconds.
Liam Harris scored a brace of tries and kicked five conversions as York City Knights claimed their seventh win of the season with a 30-12 victory over Whitehaven.
Ryan King's try, converted by Nikau Williams, gave the visitors an early 6-0 lead, but tries from Harris, Brendan O'Hagan, Levi Edwards and James Glover led the Knights to a fifth successive Championship win.
Halifax Panthers made it four wins in a row with a 40-18 victory over Barrow Raiders, the home side running in a total of eight tries in a comfortable win.
Lachlan Walmsley and Zach McComb both crossed twice and further tries came from Louis Jouffret, Adam Tangata, Joe Arundel and Kyle Wood, with Tee Ritson, Jarrad Stack, Josh Wood and Luke Cresswell scoring for the visitors.
The only away success of the weekend came at Widnes Vikings as the Batley Bulldogs ran out 38-10 winners.
Tries from Lucas Walshaw, Michael Ward, Luke Hooley and Josh Hodson saw the Bulldogs race into a 22-0 lead at half-time, with Jonny Campbell crossing twice in the second period and Alistair Leak completing the rout.
Oliver Davies and Sam Wilde scored tries in the last five minutes for Widnes.
Ben Jones-Bishop scored a hat-trick as Sheffield Eagles turned an impressive first-half performance into a 34-20 win over Newcastle Thunder on Friday night.
Alex Sutton gave Newcastle the lead after seven minutes, but the home side stormed back with 30 unanswered points thanks to two tries from Jones-Bishop and further scores from Vila Halafihi, Joel Farrell and Anthony Thackeray.
Newcastle closed the gap to 30-20 before Jones-Bishop completed his hat-trick.
Betfred Championship Round 9 Results
Friday:
- Sheffield Eagles 34-20 Newcastle Thunder
Sunday:
- Dewsbury Rams 19-18 Workington Town
- Halifax Panthers 40-18 Barrow Raiders
- Leigh Centurions 64-0 London Broncos
- Widnes Vikings 10-38 Batley Bulldogs
- York City Knights 30-12 Whitehaven
