Super League: Castleford Tigers 20-14 Warrington Wolves

Betfred Super League

Castleford (12) 20

Tries: Asi, Lawler, Simm Goals: Atkin 4

Warrington (10) 14

Tries: Stone, Thewlis, Ratchford Goal: Sneyd

Warrington's Super League play-off ambitions suffered a large stroke arsenic they were beaten by struggling Castleford astatine a rain-lashed Mend-A-Hose Jungle.

Sam Stone's people enactment Wire up aboriginal on, but the hosts deed backmost to pb 12-6 arsenic Daejarn Asi crossed and George Lawler pounced connected a handling mistake to ground.

Jake Thewlis' effort brought Warrington wrong 2 points astatine half-time, but Cas survived mounting unit and went further up done Chris Atkin's punishment and Josh Simm's try.

Stefan Ratchford touched municipality to chopped the pb to 20-14 aft Alex Mellor's sin-binning, but third-bottom Castleford held retired to springiness interim caput manager Chris Chester his archetypal win.

It near Warrington successful eighth, 3 points extracurricular the play-off places aft losing crushed to some Hull FC and Wakefield.

Following 4 successive defeats, including back-to-back reverses to the league's bottommost 2 sides, and without a caput manager since Danny McGuire's dismissal, the omens did not look bully erstwhile Castleford fell down wrong six minutes.

Marc Sneyd's up and nether slipped done Fletcher Rooney's grasp, and a fewer plays aboriginal Ben Currie sent Stone done for his archetypal Warrington try.

But the location broadside deed backmost superbly and wrong 12 minutes were up acknowledgment to immoderate Wire charity.

Lacklustre defence allowed Asi to resistance 3 tacklers implicit the enactment to level. And aft blowing a two-on-one accidental to retake the lead, the visitors trailed erstwhile a grubber footwear slid past Lachlan Fitzgibbon, allowing Lawler to pounce.

After resisting mounting pressure, Castleford's defence succumbed moments earlier the interruption erstwhile the shot was worked rapidly retired to the left, giving Thewlis abstraction for a good diving finish.

Cas astir squeezed successful a 3rd effort earlier the hooter, but Australian centre Zac Cini's surge was stopped close connected the line.

Warrington restarted with urgency and Rooney lone conscionable prevented George Williams from collecting his ain spot and pursuit earlier a Williams grubber footwear to the country narrowly evaded Thewlis.

Having soaked up the pressure, the location broadside landed a sucker-punch arsenic Atkin booted them 14-10 up earlier Sneyd spilled the shot successful the tackle connected halfway and Cas broke distant to score, with Simm finishing.

Warrington wanted much than a yellowish paper for Mellor erstwhile his precocious tackle stopped Thewlis from grounding a definite try

Yet they had anticipation again 90 seconds aboriginal erstwhile Ratchford nudged Innes Senior speech to crushed Williams' grubber kick.

Asi missed a decent drop-goal effort to instrumentality his broadside 2 scores clear, but it did not substance arsenic Cas repelled precocious back-to-back sets to unafraid conscionable a 5th triumph of the season.

Castleford Tigers interim caput manager Chris Chester told BBC Radio Leeds:

"I've ne'er questioned the players' efforts. The effort has been truly bully connected the whole, it's conscionable the content and the assurance and winning breeds confidence, but connected the flip side, erstwhile you support losing you spell into your ammunition a small spot more.

"I thought we were large today. The starting battalion was truly carnal and successful these conditions you person to footwear the shot good and connected the full I deliberation we did that."

(On Alex Mellor's precocious tackle): "I deliberation a punishment effort would person been harsh. I hold with the sin-binning, he's caught him high.

"I thought we defended our enactment beauteous good erstwhile we mislaid the skipper and we conscionable came done astatine the end."

Castleford: Rooney, Simm, Cini, L Senior, I Senior, Asin, Atkin, Amone, Lawler, Singleton, Simbiken, Mellor, Westerman.

Interchanges: Wood, Griffin, Robb, Stimson.

Sin-bin: Mellor (67).

Warrington: Dufty, Josh Thewlis, Wrench, King, Jake Thewlis, Williams, Sneyd, Yates, Powell, Vaughan, Stone, Fitzgibbon, Currie.

Interchanges: Philbin, Crowther, Irwin, Ratchford.

Referee: Jack Smith.