Leigh beat Hull to keep play-off hopes intact

Betfred Super League

Leigh (12) 42

Tries: O'Donnell 4, Halton, Hardaker 2, McIntosh Goals: McIntosh 3, Hardaker 2

Hull FC (12) 12

Tries: Moy, Barron Goals: Charles 2

Kai O'Donnell scored 4 tries arsenic Leigh hit Hull to support live hopes of reaching nan Super League play-offs.

O'Donnell and Frankie Halton put Leigh 12-0 up, but 2 tries successful six minutes earlier nan break, from Logan Moy and Harvey Barron, dragged Hull level.

O'Donnell added a second-half hat-trick to return nan crippled distant from Hull, pinch Lachlan Lam providing 3 effort assists aft nan break.

Zak Hardaker passed 150 profession tries pinch a second-half double and Darnell McIntosh crossed arsenic Leigh ran distant pinch it.

Victory extended Leigh's longest-ever unbeaten location tally successful Super League to 7 matches, pinch Wigan nan past broadside to return points home, backmost connected 4 April.

More importantly it kept them wrong 5 points of nan play-off places, pinch sixth-placed Salford owed to sojourn adjacent weekend.

In stark contrast, Hull's longest streak without a Super League distant triumph rolled connected to 15 matches - each nan measurement backmost to a derby triumph complete KR successful July past twelvemonth - and they enactment 11th, 2 points supra basement broadside London.

While O'Donnell’s four-try haul and Hardaker's landmark scores were evident attraction points, Lam bossed nan show, laying connected 5 assists - 4 of them successful nan 2nd half arsenic nan Leopards went done nan gears.

O'Donnell opened his relationship midway done nan first half earlier Halton deed Lam's cut-out walk to title complete from 10 metres.

Hull looked to beryllium fading until Carlos Tuimavave's break from halfway sent Moy distant to score.

With McIntosh successful nan sin-bin for a vulnerable tip-tackle, Barron's effort and Jack Charles' touchline conversion someway brought nan Super League strugglers level.

But bid was restored aft nan break erstwhile O'Donnell collected Lam's grubber footwear to dot down and past turned supplier for Hardaker to complete his Super League period of tries and 150th successful each competitions.

It was clip for Lam to move nan screw arsenic Hull subsided, looping a walk for McIntosh to locomotion successful earlier his grubber footwear teed up O'Donnell’s third.

Three minutes later, O'Donnell had his fourth, again courtesy of Lam, and location was still clip for Hardaker to drawback a precocious 2nd for profession effort 151.

Leigh: Hardaker; McIntosh, Hanley, Leutele, Charnley; Hughes, Lam; Amone, Ipape, Mulhern, O'Donnell, Halton, Asiata.

Interchanges: Dwyer, Davis, Pene, Trout.

Sin-bin: McIntosh (37).

Hull FC: Moy; Barron, Tuimavave, Briscoe, Martin; Walker, Charles; Ese'ese, Smith, Aydin, Cartwright, Ruan, Gardiner.

Interchanges: Balmforth, Chan, Eseh, Jebson.

Referee: Jack Smith.