Whitehaven were on the receiving end after scoring first in their Betfred Championship game at Widnes.
The Vikings ran out 56-16 winners to end a losing sequence of three games and leave Haven still anxiously looking for other results, sitting fourth bottom.
The Cumbrians couldn’t have asked for a better start as Josh Martin put them ahead on five minutes and Nikau Williams added the conversion.
Haven were only in front for five minutes and the next time they scored on 75 minutes Widnes had opened up a 52-6 lead.
Karl Dixon was the man who went over for the second Haven try and in the 79th minute Harvey Barron scored the third – both purely statistical footnotes to a game which had already been convincingly taken away from them.
There was even time on the hooter for Lloyd Roby to score the Vikings’ tenth try with Steve Tyrer scoring one of them, to go with his eight goals, which saw him reach 600 points for Widnes and pass 2,800 in his career.
