This was a gathering of the competitors’s high scorers – Leeds had scored 102 factors of their earlier two video games – and meanest defence, with Wakefield conceding fewer factors than anybody else within the opening 9 rounds.
That report was shortly underneath risk as Connor’s early penalty set the tone and after Trinity’s Cam Scott had been stretchered off and brought to hospital after a head conflict, Sivo benefited from astonishingly fast fingers from Handley to attain the primary attempt.
The Rhinos have been brimming with confidence and aptitude, and Connor’s no-look move despatched Watkins slicing by way of the defensive cowl to make it 14-0.
Oliver Pratt lastly received Wakefield within the sport together with his eleventh Tremendous League attempt of the season, however Leeds have been irrepressible within the first half and Lachie Miller despatched Sivo away for his second attempt to restore the 14-point lead.
The momentum shifted simply earlier than the break as Sivo obtained his yellow card for a excessive sort out on Josh Rourke, and large Kiwi entrance rower Lolesio powered over the road for his first Wakefield attempt to carry recent hope to the travelling followers.
Connor added a penalty early within the second half to offer Leeds respiration area, however simply earlier than Sivo returned to the sector Leeds misplaced one other man as Handley was adjudged to have pushed Rourke as the 2 males raced after a kick into in-goal.
Once more Trinity made use of the additional man as 23-year-old winger Myers completed brilliantly within the nook and Mason Lino’s conversion slashed the result in 4.
Tremendous League’s main factors scorer Connor finally kicked seven out of eight, an enormous contribution, however he confirmed the opposite facet to his sport with an interception and break that arrange Croft for a attempt at an enormous second within the sport.
Nonetheless Trinity plugged away and Myers added one other after catching Rourke’s kick excessive, however Leeds have been to not be denied as Sivo got here up with one other robust end within the nook, and Connor added a penalty.
Even the sin-binning of Jack Chook, Leeds’ third yellow card of the night time, didn’t interrupt the circulate of the sport as Croft continued his pursuit of team-mate Sivo on the high of the scoring charts together with his second of the night time and thirteenth in all.
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